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The Toughest Part of Making the Hillary Documentary, According to Nanette Burstein
"It's hard to be the person that has to interrogate them about one of the most painful moments of their lives."
Hillary is a four-part tell-all documentary about Hillary Clinton's life, marriage, and career, aired on Hulu on Friday, March 6.
The former Secretary of State sat down for 35 hours of interviews, along with her husband, President Bill Clinton, her daughter Chelsea Clinton, President Obama, and others.
In an interview with OprahMag.com, documentarian Nanette Burstein talks about the making of the documentary—including "dreading" the conversations about Monica Lewinsky.
Hillary, Nanette Burstein's four-part tell-all about Hillary Clinton's life, dropped on Hulu on Friday, March 6. All it took was four months spent sifting through 1,700 hours of campaign footage, 35 hours of in-person interviews with Clinton, and a singular, ambitious mission to get there.
Back in 2018, Burstein was hired to shape a documentary about Clinton using behind-the-scenes footage taken during the lead-up to the 2016 election. Instead, she created an epic. "I didn't want to do a documentary that re-litigated the 2016 election," Burstein tells OprahMag.com. "I wanted to tell her whole life story."
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The ensuing documentary interweaves Clinton's career highlights with intimate moments from her 2016 presidential campaign. What results is a holistic portrait of Clinton as a feminist trailblazer, from the 1969 commencement speech that landed her a profile in Time to her days reshaping the office of the First Lady to, finally, her time as the Democratic party's first female candidate for president.
In doing so, Hillary places the 2016 election in the context of Clinton's career, and the American public's long relationship with that career. "I want viewers to understand who she was and where she came from," Burstein explains. "To understand the attacks about her in 2016, you have to understand the attacks about her in the '90s."
If Hillary succeeds, it's because it goes where no documentary has gone before: Up close and personal with Clinton herself.
Burstein's only condition when making Hillary would be that everything—from her political aspirations to Monica Lewinsky—would be on the table during the interviews, which ended up taking a full week. "She agreed to that. Of course once she actually had to sit down and do it, it was harder in theory," Burstein says. For example, Burstein had to do the Lewinsky interviews twice, because Clinton remained reticent the first time.
In an interview with OprahMag.com, Burstein talks about the process of capturing Clinton, unguarded.
The 2016 election has been examined over and over. How is this documentary treading new ground?
I wanted to tell her whole life story. The reason why I wanted to include 2016 was not only because it was important moment in her life, but because we had these amazing unfiltered, unvarnished, and behind-the-scenes assets of her. [Ed note: Burstein had access to 1,700 hours of campaign footage]. At the time, the camera was filming with no expectation of that footage being seen by the outside world, so she could be herself.
Given that she's often accused of being inauthentic and inaccessible, I felt that footage was very important to use. What I loved about that footage was being able to see her with the curtain pulled back. I really want it to be, what was this moment like for her? What does this say about her personality? Not, why did she lose?
Why do you think she agreed to participate?
A lot of it was how I presented it. Why I wanted to tell this story was not to tell a titillating tell-all about Hillary Clinton. I really felt that her story was emblematic of the feminist movement. There were so many pushbacks that she had to overcome, and she kept doing it almost in a Sisyphus type of way. Once she agreed to do it, it was clear that everything was on the table. We'd want to talk to her about her marriage. She agreed to that. Of course once she actually had to sit down and do it, it was harder. Especially with a camera there. Very tough.
How did you approach the Monica Lewinsky conversation? Was the mood different doing those days?
It was quite intimidating. It's not something they've ever spoken about on camera. We pushed off Monica Lewinsky with her until one of the last days, and actually ended up doing it twice. The first time she talked about it, but I think she had a hard time with it. She wasn't quite as comfortable and forthright in dealing with how it affected her emotionally. So we went back to it at the end. She was more comfortable then.
Whether you love them or hate them, they're important historical figures that I have a lot of respect for. It's hard to be the person that has to interrogate them about one of the most painful moments of their lives. Particularly the former president, because it was a choice that he made. She, in many ways, is the victim, and he is the one who hurt her. That's harder to move past, and harder to ask.
Did you dread it?
I did dread it. I knew what day it would be. It's one of those things where you have to rip the band-aid off.
In the doc, people say there's a difference between Clinton in private and her in public. Did you experience that?
Any time you interview a subject on screen you want the most honest version of themselves, the most candid version. That, for anyone, can take time once the camera is rolling. So it took her time for her to let her guard down, and for her to speak in a candid way and feel much more at ease. Fortunately, we had a good rapport, which helped enormously. We had the leisure of time. I had a lot of questions and she was willing to answer them. Within a day or so, she was a lot less reserved and much more herself. I didn't know how that would go. I had never interviewed her before.
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Back at NCH, and report out from Cleveland
Written by admin on February 9, 2021 . Posted in Blog
By Brian Davis
In January, I took on the Director of Grassroots Organizing role, formerly held by Michael Stoops, and am so honored to be working again for the oldest homeless civil rights organization in America. I was a board member of NCH from 2001 until 2017.
I previously worked 23 years for a small advocacy organization causing trouble in Cleveland, OH. I oversaw the homeless memorials, Stand Downs and constructed programs to better serve those without a permanent residence. I registered thousands of people to vote and sued the State of Ohio to protect the voting rights of low income people without identification. I also regularly organized lawsuits against the City of Cleveland when they attempted to make it illegal to be without a home. Every month I was the guy who faced people living in shelters and on the streets and had to answer their criticism for what a stupid system we the people had constructed for those who were hungry or struggling with housing. I worked for 23 years attempting to amplify those voices so they were heard at the County administration building, City Hall, and at hearing rooms in the Rayburn Office Building of Congress.
Brian Davis, Director of Grassroots Organizing
Ralph, passed away in Cleveland because of homelessness
Report out from Cleveland:
According to the US Census, Cleveland once again became the poorest city in the United States in 2020. One third of the total population of poor people in Ohio live in Cleveland even though the city on the shores of Lake Erie only represents 3% of the total population of the Buckeye state. The County that Cleveland sits in runs most welfare programs, and funds the addiction services as well as the mental health system, but that often means that people experiencing homelessness are not treated as individuals. They are instead told to conform to the one-size-fits-all approach to receiving help or do it alone.
For decades the city had been one of the few cities in the United States that offered guaranteed access to shelter for anyone who wanted it. This became moot in the 2010s when the conditions in the shelter had deteriorated to the point that the reputation of the shelter was so bad many found that sleeping on the street was more attractive than staying in a shelter. In addition, HUD's policy of funding permanent supportive housing over everything else closed most of the family shelters in Cleveland. The waiting list for housing was years long and the waiting list for a decent shelter bed was also excessively long. Before the pandemic there were 22,000 to 24,000 evictions a year, and a severe lack of beds for women fleeing domestic violence, and no specific programs for young people. So, in one of the poorest cities in America, the safety net for homeless people was in tatters then a global pandemic hit.
The congregate living shelters in Cleveland were all big facilities housing between 100 and 400 people in the same space. Back in March 2020, these shelters were ordered to reduce the population by half and a few facilities decided to close because they could no longer staff the facility during the pandemic. The County decided to either take over shelters, or begin to fund nights at a couple of hotels operated mostly by some sketchy landlords. They started moving people into hotels, which were operated similarly to the transitional shelters that changes in HUD funding priorities had nearly completely eliminated from the social service system. There were hotels for women, one for men, a mixed gender hotel and a Covid positive hotel. The hotel that the County paid to put families up in was actually a really upscale facility, and provided a degree of respect to low income people that we are not accustomed to seeing in this mean city.
The hotel rooms have been a lifesaver, and advocates hope that they continue past the pandemic. Advocates and service providers in Cleveland have really worked to keep people safe, especially severely mentally ill people who during a normal winter would be sleeping on the streets. Doctors and nurses from the local public hospital have taken it upon themselves to regularly check in on homeless people now spread out in hotels and shelters across the city. There hasn't been much organized governmental coordination in response to the pandemic, but community groups have stepped forward to take the lead.
There are still holes and problems come up every day during a pandemic especially since it has dragged on for such a long period of time. There are not enough tests for the staff or residents – hotels are not a priority for testing since they are not considered "congregate living facilities," even though people have to gather for meals and pass each other in halls. There are way too many older folks being discharged from residential facilities, hoping that people will just survive alone in hotel rooms until a vaccine is available to them. While there are far fewer campsites, the number of people who ride around on public transportation all night is way up, and this has spread out the population in a bigger geographic area. Staff are completely stressed out and afraid, and there are far fewer volunteers to make meals and care for the population.
One good thing is that because of there being fewer unsheltered folks, the number of homeless deaths has come down. Turns out if you offer someone a space in a private room instead of just a bed in a dorm with 100 other guys, they are going to take it, and it is going to keep them safe!
National Coalition for the Homeless Calls for Warming Centers to be Opened in US Cities to Meet Demand!
In response to the deaths in Sacramento we are also urging that the decisions to open warming centers be made by elected officials and not unelected bureaucrats.
The state capital for the most populous state in the union, Sacramento, is struggling to serve low income people during the pandemic. Last week, they made the tragic decision to not open a warming center as a storm approached. On the evening of January 26 a thunderstorm hit the region with 70 mph winds and flooding that resulted in the death of at least five people living outside.
The National Coalition for the Homeless is renewing our call to open warming centers based on need and not some arbitrary number like the expected temperature outside. In response to the specific tragedy in Sacramento, we are urging that elected officials from around the country be forced to make the decision on when to open a warming center so that they have to face voters when their lack of action has deadly consequences. In Sacramento, NCH is asking that for the rest of the winter that the warming centers or a motel room be opened to anyone who requests a place inside in memory of those who lost their lives during this past storm. Karen Hunter was sleeping alone in a tent as the horrible wind struck Sacramento and lost her life because her government could not provide a safe place for her to ride out the storm.
As the storm approached on Tuesday January 26, three City Council members as well as the Mayor urged the County to open a warming center to get people inside, but City Manager, Howard Chan decided that the temperature was not going to below the 32 degree threshold mandated by the County according to an investigation by the Sacramento Bee's Teresa Clift. The City of Sacramento has some byzantine rules about only opening the warming centers if the temperature gets to 32 degrees despite the heavy rain expected, and the fact that many people die of hypothermia because they are wet and cold. Chan justified his action to the Sacramento Bee saying that his fear was the warming center would become a Covid hotspot and spread the disease throughout the community. Other cities such as Cleveland have opened hotel rooms instead of gymnasiums to those who sleep outside to keep them safe from the elements as well as the coronavirus.
The public radio station quoted Mayor Darell Steinber as demanding the County open a safe place ahead of the storm. Here is how Kris Hooks of CapRadio described the lack of urgency from the County when describing the Mayor,
"Darrell Steinberg expressed outrage over the slow-moving bureaucracy to move people out of the elements. 'We can't get a Goddamn warming center open for more than one night because the county has rules? I'm sick of it,' Steinberg said."
The Sacramento Bee also included the same quote in their investigation, "Night of Terror: Sacramento homeless lined up for shelter during the storm. The doors never opened."
"It is real simple," said Donald Whitehead Executive Director of National Coalition for the Homeless, "City governments must respond when a taxpayer asks for a warm place inside or if they cannot keep their citizens safe they have no reason to exist. The threat of hypothermia is typically a result of an individual not being able to keep themselves dry and their temperature drops. We urge cities to respond when any individual asks for help by providing a safe, warm place for the everyone to sleep if they do not have night time shelter. So for example, if a couple, lets call them Mary and Joseph, shows up at City Hall and asks for a place to stay out of the elements, cities have a moral obligation to open up their doors and not force Mary to sleep in a barn exposed to the elements especially during inclement weather."
The Sacramento Bee article quoted Mark Jordan who was living next to the tent Karen Hunter died in saying, "I just thought my heart was going to stop. I was so cold." Since unelected bureaucrats do not seem to have moral compass to understand the needs of the population they serve, NCH is asking that the life and death decisions of when to open "warming centers" be made by someone in the community who will have to face the public in an election if they make the wrong decision. We believe that Karen Hunter paid with her life because an unelected bureaucrat made a decision that the thousands of people in Sacramento living outside could survive a thunderstorm with only a thin layer of nylon for protection.
The Sacramento Services Not Sweeps Coalition is hosting a vigil for those who lost their lives in the city last week on Friday, February 5 at 5 p.m., at Sacramento City Hall, and march to the County building to demand a more humane response to the housing crisis in the region. We urge activists in the region to show up (fully masked) and maintain 6 feet of social distancing to support the Services Not Sweeps Coalition demands for action. For more information on local efforts to protect the most vulnerable in Sacramento, visit the Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness website.
Here are some additional articles about the situation in Sacramento:
City Council Article: https://www.sacbee.com/article248802475.html
CBS Local TV story: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/01/27/two-homeless-death-steinberg/
Photos of damage: https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/01/27/two-homeless-death-steinberg/
Not Opening the Warming Centers: https://sacbee.com/news/local/article248818310.html
Public Radio Story on the Deaths: https://www.capradio.org/articles/2021/01/27/unhoused-residents-died-as-a-storm-ravaged-sacramento-and-officials-debated-homelessness-solutions/
National Story on the Storm Damage: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sacramento-homeless-rain-storm-shelter_n_601340efc5b6bde2f5bde2cd?ncid=NEWSSTAND0005
Santa Fe has not had any Homeless Deaths Due to COVID
Written by Brian Davis on January 30, 2021 . Posted in Blog
The city of Santa Fe New Mexico owned a defunct college and so when the pandemic hit the community in March 2020, city leaders moved those without homes into the empty dormitories. The local government also contracted with local motels to be able a total of 300 people with both of these resources. The city government initially ran operations, but eventually management of the facilities was taken over by a private non-profit that already worked with those experiencing homelessness. This quick response was funded largely through federal CARES act assistance.
This dormitory model has stopped outbreaks within the shelters that many other cities have seen. The cities of Albuquerque and Gallup have both faced outbreaks of COVID within congregate shelters. In fact, the city of Gallup had a single individual infect the local shelter which then traveled to the Navajo nation reservation and was devastating to the fragile population living in the surrounding areas.
Dormitories and hotels have been used across the country to successfully keep vulnerable and unhoused folks safe from this deadly pathogen. Santa Fe has a comprehensive continuum including permanent supportive housing and, during the pandemic, has worked to reduce the number of people in congregate living facilities, which has helped move many into safe places to quarantine. But advocates report that they are still seeing steady streams of individuals from all age groups entering the homeless system.
The local poverty rate is 12.4% overall, with 25% of the children living below the poverty level. The state estimates that 12.3% of the population are behind on their rent at least one month since the pandemic started. The area has a higher than average unemployment rate of 13%, and higher than the national average of people without health insurance at 14.8%. Especially during the pandemic economic downturn, these factors have contributed to many falling into homelessness.
Advocates in Santa Fe report that service agencies have really stepped up to help in the face of this global health emergency. Many Continuum of Care (i.e. HUD-funded) agencies have donated staff time to help keep the emergency facilities operational and to open overflow facilities when necessary. Service workers have been putting in extra hours to staff the dormitory in order to keep people safe.
Santa Fe is not as hostile to homeless people as some other cities in the state. Local unhoused folks have not had the conflicts with law enforcement that folks in other communities have faced. City officials are largely following CDC guidelines not to disrupt encampments during the pandemic, keeping contact with encampments to a minimum. Local advocates have worked to keep the community informed during the pandemic and to keep those without housing as safe as possible.
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Shortly after the events of the previous chapter, Robert approaches Coach Ridley about joining the faculty at St. Benedict's. The summer of 2003 has been hard for Robert: he has no money and no job. He's moved back in with his mother, and depends on her. Robert's friends all have stable jobs—while Robert, who's worked harder than any of them, does not.
Robert has experienced a major setback: he's lost all the money he made selling drugs at Yale, not just because of Carl's dishonesty but because of his own naiveté.
Friar Leahy has been paying close attention to Robert since Robert has come back to Newark. Because of his experience as a teacher, he's not too surprised that Robert had fallen on hard times. He remembers a black student from years ago, who earned a Rhodes Scholarship. Outrageously, the student wasn't able to find work after finishing his program. Eventually, the student committed suicide. Leahy offers Robert a job teaching biology, and Robert reluctantly accepts. He also coaches water polo.
Friar Leahy is clearly a concerned, compassionate man. He genuinely wants Robert to succeed in life—furthermore, unlike many of Robert's friends and mentors, he's realistic about the pressures of success and the opportunities available to black, working-class Yale graduates. Therefore, he gives Robert as much help as he can give.
One night, Robert is relaxing with his friends, including Julius and Tavarus, in a friend-of-a-friend's house. The host confronts Robert about having gone to Yale, and orders Robert to get out. Robert and the host begin yelling at each other. Soon, they begin hitting each other. Tavarus and Julius break up the fight, and Tavarus tells Robert that he can't fight like that. At a time when most of Robert's classmates treat their Yale status as a badge of honor, Robert hides his.
Robert is clearly frustrated with his situation in life, and takes out his frustration on his Newark peers. Robert is "neither here nor there"—he's something of an outsider both among his Newark friends and his Yale classmates. His attempts at fronting don't prove as successful as they did in high school.
That summer, Jeff emails Robert, but the email bounces back. He calls his old house on Chapman street, but gets no answer. Jeff realizes that he has no way of contacting his friend. Eventually, Ty emails Jeff Robert's new number. Jeff calls Robert, and Robert explains that he's been teaching high school. Robert seems a little distant, and Jeff assumes that, just as Robert is fading from his mind, he's fading from Robert's.
Jeff claims that he keeps in touch with Robert but doesn't think about Robert all that often. This raises some questions about how close Jeff and Robert were in the first place: it's not as if Jeff knows much about Robert's life, perhaps explaining why he's not motivated to talk to Robert all that often.
Jeff doesn't realize that, just a few days before he calls Robert, one of Robert's weed suppliers pulls a gun on him during a price negotiation. Robert realizes that he's gotten too complacent at Yale—he's used to people paying him whatever he asks for. He decides to stop dealing drugs. He also seems to forgive Carl for taking his money, saying, "You can't blame a dog for eating up a steak if you leave the steak on the floor."
Robert gets a frightening reminder that he's not at Yale anymore. He seems to be coming to accept his situation, even forgiving Carl. This is indicative of Robert's incredible self-control and sense of responsibility; instead of staying angry, he forces himself to move on.
Robert is a good teacher at St. Benedict's. He has no problem telling students when they're being lazy, and often motivates them to succeed. He doesn't broadcast his Yale degree but instead focuses on teaching his students good study habits. On one occasion, Robert tells a student to "shut the fuck up," and the student's mother complains. Robert apologizes, but he's irritated—he's sure he's done the right thing.
Robert is a good leader, partly because he's capable of being tough with his students when he needs to be. He pushes his students to succeed in a way that other, milder teachers wouldn't. However, Robert can be hardheaded and reluctant to back down—never good qualities for a teacher to have.
Robert buys a house for himself near Chapman Street. Jackie is confused: Robert is making even less money than she makes, and she expects him to spend his savings on his family. Robert takes care of his aging grandparents, cooking for them and leaving them a few hundred dollars a month. He insists that his purchase is an investment—he'll rent out the house to people. Jackie finds Robert's decision unwise, but she knows she can no longer control what her son does.
Robert continues to care for his mother and grandparents, and yet in other ways seems to be pushing away from them. His business plans seem impractical and misguided, but he's at a point in his life where nobody can stop him from doing what he wants to do.
Oswaldo Gutierrez comes down to Newark to help Robert fix up his new house. The house is old and dilapidated, but Robert seems proud to be living there. Privately, Oswaldo thinks Robert is foolish to imagine that he's going to make a profit renting out this property. But he helps Robert repair the house.
One of the key themes of this chapter is that Robert's friends and family know he's making mistakes, but don't say anything. Robert has always been so confident and self-assured that the people in his life have learned not to give him advice.
Robert contacts his old friend Hrvoje, who played water polo for the University of Vermont. They get together on weekends to play water polo. Before playing, Robert always goes to visit Skeet. Skeet and Robert continue to search for a way to get Skeet out of jail. Ingeniously, Robert finds that the judge in Skeet's 1999 trial misquoted a standard of review—an error which could lead to a mistrial. Furthermore, Skeet has been a model inmate. Robert begins to use this to draft an appeal.
Robert keeps in touch with his friends and his family. He continues to love his father deeply and wants to remain attached to him, hence the fact that he continues to devote a lot of time to drafting an appeal.
In the winter of 2005, Skeet begins to notice that Robert asks him for advice. Robert is keeping tenants in his house, and he finds it hard to extract rent from them. Meanwhile, Skeet has begun to feel tired. However, he doesn't visit the prison doctor.
Skeet is one of the few people whom Robert feels comfortable asking for advice. But the passage foreshadows the impending tragedy in Skeet's already tragic life.
In 2005, Jeff is happily engaged to a woman named Rebecca. He and his fiancé visit the Penn Relays, a popular sporting event in Philadelphia, and meet up with Robert, Ty Cantey, and some other Yale friends. Jeff notices that both of his roommates seem worn-out by their jobs and studies. In private, Robert tells Rebecca, almost gravely, "You picked a good one."
The years immediately following graduation are hard for almost all of Jeff's friends: they've been succeeding for so many uninterrupted years that the prospect of real adult challenges fills them with anxiety. Jeff and Robert apparently continue to respect one another, explaining Robert's comments to Rebecca.
Jeff and his Yale friends are adults, faced with all the joys and frustrations of their mid-twenties. Their lives are changing quickly. Strangely, though, Robert's life seems not to be changing at all. He still lives in Newark, hangs out with friends from high school, and goes to St. Benedict's five days a week. That summer, however, Robert experiences a major change when Skeet collapses in prison.
At the time, it seemed as if Yale would give Robert a chance to reinvent himself. And yet, it would now seem, Robert hasn't reinvented himself at all: he's the same person he always was, and hasn't escaped his environment at all. The chapter ends on another cliffhanger, hinting at another tragedy in Robert's life.


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The Green Party Openly Preferred George W. Bush in 2000 and Openly Prefers Donald Trump Now October 20, 2016 Bo Gardiner
The Green Party Openly Preferred George W. Bush in 2000 and Openly Prefers Donald Trump Now
By Bo Gardiner
It's a nearly forgotten yet proven fact that in the 2000 presidential race, Green Party candidate Ralph Nader openly expressed a preference for George W. Bush in the White House over Al Gore.
It should be no surprise, then, that the Greens' current presidential and VP candidates, Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka, have begun expressing their preference for a Donald Trump victory. Last week on C-SPAN, Stein said:
On the issue of war… it is actually Hillary's policies which are much scarier than Donald Trump, who does not want to go to war with Russia. He wants to seek modes of working together, which is the route that we need to follow.
On Thursday, Stein and Baraka tweeted their new claims that Trump is a man of peace, with Stein retweeting her running mate's comments.
The Pilger piece they tweeted says:
Donald Trump is… a maverick. He says the invasion of Iraq was a crime; he doesn't want to go to war with Russia and China. The danger to the rest of us is not Trump, but Hillary Clinton.
The Greens' Republican preference is madness but faithfully adheres to Nader's description of the Green plan to assist Republican candidates in order to heighten public anger and desire for revolt. In that light, they must see Donald Trump as a dream come true.
If you're skeptical that these new statements can't possibly mean that's the Green goal, it's crucial to understand the history of the 2000 campaign between Bush and Gore; every voter should.
The third-party landscape in 2016
But first, let's the set the stage for what's coming in November.
The Libertarian candidate, Gary Johnson, a former Republican governor (as is his running mate), has won an appearance on all fifty states' ballots. Jill Stein will be on 44. Another Republican, Evan McMullin, will be on 12 ballots as an independent alternative to Trump. None, as we all now know, achieved the polling threshold required to appear in official presidential debates.
The conventional wisdom is that Johnson draws away votes fairly equally from both parties, while Stein primarily draws from Democrats, though anything could happen. The nonpartisan Campus Election Engagement Project states:
… Green Party candidate Jill Stein's positions are far closer to Clinton's, especially on domestic issues, than either of them are to Trump…
Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson holds more divergent positions and therefore will have a more unpredictable impact on the election results. His positions tend to be closer to Trump's than to Clinton's on most issues, like cutting taxes and cutting or eliminating environmental and consumer protection laws. And Libertarians generally draw votes from Republicans. But Johnson's positions on issues like marijuana legalization and his anti-interventionist policies also draw Democrats…
Johnson has been polling 6%-8%. Voters of his in close states could defeat either Clinton or Trump. By voting Third Party, they leave this decision to others, risking the election of the candidate they most vehemently oppose.
2%-4% of voters favor Stein in recent polls. Given the closeness of this race, by voting for Stein they could make it more likely for Trump to become President.
Now let's take a closer look at the role of the Greens, now and in 2000.
Nader repeatedly said he preferred Bush to Gore in the White House
In 2000, besides Nader heading the Green ticket, the other significant third party contender was Pat Buchanan, who had twice failed in winning the Republican nomination and was now running on Ross Perot's Reform Party ticket. While Republicans worried about Buchanan, Democrats fretted about the Greens.
Before the election, Nader told Outside Magazine:
When asked if someone put a gun to his head and told him to vote for either Gore or Bush, which he would choose, Nader answered without hesitation: "Bush… If you want the parties to diverge from one another, have Bush win."
He also said this to a Rolling Stone reporter who asked, "Since you're planning to raise $5 million and run hard this year, does that mean you would not have a problem providing the margin of defeat for Gore?"
"I would not — not at all," Nader answered. "I'd rather have a provocateur than an anesthetizer in the White House. "
This was a line Nader was to repeat several times:
… 12 former colleagues asked Nader to reevaluate his strategy of lumping together Democrats and Republicans.
"It is now clear that you might well give the White House to Bush," the former colleagues wrote in a statement published Friday. "As a result, you would set back significantly the social progress to which you have devoted your entire, astonishing career… It is time for you once again to step aside in the best interest of your nation."
The letter was signed "Former Nader Raiders," the name used by those who worked with Nader from 1969 to 1984…
After lambasting Gore as part of a do-nothing Clinton administration, Nader said: "If it were a choice between a provocateur and an 'anesthetizer,' I'd rather have a provocateur. It would mobilize us."
… in the past Nader has said that a Bush victory could have an oddly beneficial effect for the Green movement… Bush, Nader has said, could be the same kind of "provocateur" if elected.
If you thought the Green Party goal was (and is) to push Democrats to the left, you're sadly mistaken… Nader was clear he sought to destroy them, by using the GOP to worsen the nation's problems so citizens would look to the Greens to save them:
… a group of a dozen former "Nader's Raiders," who asserted that their former mentor had broken a promise not to campaign in states where he could hurt Gore and begged him to reconsider doing so.
… Nader has made it perfectly clear that his campaign isn't about trying to pull the Democrats back to the left. Rather, his strategy is the Leninist one of "heightening the contradictions." It's not just that Nader is willing to take a chance of being personally responsible for electing Bush. It's that he's actively trying to elect Bush because he thinks that social conditions in American need to get worse before they can better.
Nader often makes this "the worse, the better" point on the stump in relation to Republicans and the environment… Nader understands that his movement thrives on misery.
Nader told Tim Russert on Meet The Press that "it didn't matter who was in the White House," but then, incredibly, suggested Bush would be better for the environment than Al Gore, and that a Bush win would be considered success for the Greens:
RUSSERT: Would it bother you that if you did so well in California, Oregon, Washington state, along the West Coast, that Al Gore lost the election?
NADER: No, not at all… There may be a cold shower for four years that would help the Democratic Party… It doesn't matter who is in the White House.
RUSSERT: … Would [Al Gore] not be better on [environmental and consumer] issues than George W. Bush?
NADER: On corporate power issues, apart from the rhetoric, no… regulatory agencies under Clinton/Gore are as bad or worse than under Reagan/Bush…
RUSSERT: So if you wake up in November of 2000 and the Green Party has gotten 5 percent of the vote, but Al Gore has lost and George W. Bush is the next president, you'll consider the day a success?
NADER: The Green Party will get more than 5 percent of the vote… We'll have a more competitive, robust effort, and I'd like to, along with Pat Buchanan, get on these presidential debates…
The Greens intentionally targeted swing states to shift votes from Gore to Bush
Nader's closest advisor and nephew Tarek Milleronconfirmedthis was the Green Party's goal:
Although Milleron argued that environmentalists and other activists would find fundraising easier under Bush, he acknowledged that a Bush presidency would be worse for poor and working-class people, for blacks, for most Americans… But when I suggested that Nader could gain substantial influence in a Democratic administration by focusing his campaign on the 40 safe states and encouraging his supporters elsewhere to vote Gore, Milleron leaned coolly toward me with extra steel in his voice and body. He did not disagree. He simply said, "We're not going to do that."
"Why not?" I said.
With just a flicker of smile, he answered, "Because we want to punish the Democrats, we want to hurt them, wound them."
There was a long silence and the conversation was over. Milleron's words are so remarkable they bear repeating: Ralph Nader ran so he could hurt, wound, and punish the Democrats. His primary goal was not raising issues, much less building the Green Party. He actively wanted Gore to lose.
Not only was Nader not avoiding swing states, he was, in fact, targeting them.
Nader spent the final days of the Bush-Gore election campaigning in Florida, knowing it was pivotal for Gore.
The GOP was grateful, running TV ads showing Nader attacking Gore.
Nothing but slogans from Stein and Nader when asked 'Why are Greens willing to help Republicans?!'
The similarities between Nader and Stein are remarkable and run deep. They share an identical approach when asked about their strategy's impact on real lives, using contemptuous non-answers composed of "made-for-television nonsequiturs." With Nader:
"If asked about being a spoiler, he'd invariably reply, 'You can't spoil a system that's spoiled to the core.'" Chait concludes: "Not since Steve Forbes has a presidential candidate turned aside unwanted queries so robotically. Nader's one-liners were pure, made-for-television nonsequiturs, all refusing to engage on any substantive level the fact that his candidacy might prove a decisive factor in Bush's election."
Nader's empty sloganeering can be heard in Stein, as in this exchange last week with Mehdi Hasan of Al-Jazeera America:
HASAN: Do you agree, Jill Stein, with Noam Chomsky, that if you're in a swing state like Pennsylvania, where you are now, that could determine the next election result, you should vote for Hillary as a progressive in order to stop the lesser of two evils, the very right-wing — some would say far right-wing — candidate Donald Trump? Surely that's a no-brainer?
STEIN: It will be horrific if Trump wins, but I am not at all reassured by the policies of Hillary Clinton… Democracy needs an affirmative agenda…
HASAN: OK, but one of them is going to be the next president. Most Americans are going to choose between those two people, and if they were to ask you, "Jill Stein, I'm in a swing state, I'm worried about Donald Trump, like Noam Chomsky, should I vote for Hillary Clinton to stop Trump?" What is your advice to that voter?
STEIN: You should vote for our future…
A strange and toxic myth: 'No real difference between Democrats and Republicans'
It's an odd schizophrenia of the Greens, this idea that "the parties are the same, but it's better if the GOP gets in." Nader's stock line when insisting there was no significant difference between the two major parties was calling them twins named "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum." The claim is breathtakingly oblivious to the reality of the impact on actual human lives beyond the Greens' ivory tower.
Black Lives Matters campaigners should take note of this deeply foreshadowing assessment of Nader's 2000 irrationality and standpoint of privilege:
… to argue that there is no significant difference between the two candidates on racial matters is to argue that blacks, Latinos and others are the victims of a grand hoax to which white leftists are somehow immune… Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. explained that while "some of us are making decisions from the perspective of philosophy and the luxury of our comfortableness…there are other members of our coalition, who are not here, who have everything at stake." To take one small example of the issues in question, California State Senator Tom Hayden observes that a Gore presidency could lead to effective Justice Department measures to curb crimes committed on a systematic basis by law enforcement officers, while George W. Bush has complained of the Justice Department's "overaggressive" police brutality investigations. This is, notes Hayden, "the kind of difference you just can't responsibly forget."
In short, angry about police brutality and racial injustice? Thank the Greens for Bush.
Stein shares Nader's bizarre view of the parties' supposed sameness. As she said at a 2013 Green Party event in Florida:
We've gotta… recognize that the difference between the lesser and greater evil is really window dressing. It's window dressing. There may be some differences — this isn't to say there are none — but those differences are not big enough to save your life, to save your job, to save the climate, to save our food system, to save our colleges and our local schools and our housing. They absolutely agree on the devastation that's being heaped on all those areas.
That last line, though. Could it be more ludicrous, not to mention grossly insulting, to the conservation community? In Stein's mind, since major environmental groups support Clinton and not Stein, they too must agree on the glories of climate devastation. One must wonder if Stein's fondness for Trump comes from a shared distaste for nuance.
Meanwhile back on Planet Earth, the difference between the parties on the environment is dramatic and widening. The League of Conservation Voters' National Environmental Scorecard tells the story, starkly and inarguably, on climate, air, water, toxics, energy, drilling, transportation, forests, and oceans. It shows House Republican pro-environmental votes have been steadily dropping from 22% in the 1990s to today's abysmal 5%. Among Congressional party leaders, Democratic senators average 98 percent on pro-environmental votes while Republicans are at 9%; in the House, it's 86% to 6%.
Donald Trump would be the only world leader who denies climate science. "Window dressing," indeed.
When will Greens take responsibility for Bush's Iraq war and environmental devastation?
The philosophy of the Greens then and now is to refuse responsibility for the consequences of their actions on the environment, the people, and wildlife. When Jill Stein tweets about a "damning" report on endangered bees, she fails to acknowledge it's a damning indictment of her own party. She takes no responsibility for her party giving us the man who gutted the Endangered Species Act and fought pesticide regulations. More incredibly, she's now openly lending support to the man who vows to end the EPA completely.
This is the Green trademark, as Eric Alterman of The Nation wrote in 2000:
How odd it is to note, therefore, that this nascent leftist movement has virtually no support among African-Americans, Latinos or Asian-Americans. It has no support among organized feminist groups, organized gay rights groups or mainstream environmental groups. To top it all off, it has no support in the national union movement…
Although Nader has said that he would not consciously work to elect Bush over Gore, "he is not keeping his pledges," according to his onetime comrades in Nader's Raiders for Gore. Nader has been campaigning aggressively in Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. If Gore loses even a few of those states, then Hello, President Bush. And if Bush does win, then Goodbye to so much of what Nader and his followers profess to cherish. Goodbye, for instance, to affirmative action, abortion rights, gun control, campaign finance reform, minimum-wage raises, environmental protection, consumer protection, class-action lawsuits, worker-safety legislation and just about everything else the government can do to help the neediest and most vulnerable among us…
If elected, [Al Gore] will arguably be the most environmentally sensitive and sophisticated politician ever to occupy the Oval Office… George Bush, it is safe to predict, would ignore those aspects of environmental protection that he did not reverse. The former oilman has one of the worst environmental records of any governor in the entire fifty states.
Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope wrote Nader an emotional letter in late October 2000:
… You have made clear that you will consider it a victory if the net result of your campaign is a Bush presidency. But what will your "cold shower" mean for real people and real places?
What will it mean for tens of millions of asthmatic children when Bush applies to the nation the "voluntary" approach he's using in Texas to clean up the air…. And what about his stated opposition to enforcing environmental standards against corporations?
… What will it mean for Americans vulnerable to water pollution when Bush allows water quality standards to be degraded to meet the needs of paper mills and refineries as he has consistently done in Texas… And what if he eliminates federal financial support for both drinking water and water pollution, as his budget calls for…
What will it mean for communities of color and poverty located near toxic waste sites, when Bush applies his Texas approach of lower standards and lower polluter liability to toxic waste clean-up?
What will a Bush election mean to the Gwich'in people of the Arctic, when the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is turned over the oil companies and the calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou herd on which they depend are destroyed and despoiled?
What will it mean for the fishing families of the Pacific Northwest when Bush amends the Endangered Species Act to make extinction for the endangered salmon a legally acceptable option?…
What will it mean for millions of rural Americans whose livelihood, health and communities are being destroyed by unregulated factory feeding operations, if Bush weakens the Clean Water Act? When he appoints Supreme Court justices who complete the task of shutting down access to federal courts for citizens trying to enforce environmental laws?
What will it mean for the wildlife that depend upon our National Forests when Bush undoes the Clinton-Gore Administration reforms, reverses their roadless area protection policy, and restores the timber industry to the mastery of the forests…
What will it mean for millions of people in Bangladesh and other low-lying countries when an American refusal to confront the problem of global warming unleashes the floods and typhoons of a rising ocean upon them?
I, and the overwhelming majority of the environmental movement in this country, genuinely believe that your strategy is flawed, dangerous and reckless… My hope is that by electing the best environmental President in American history, Al Gore, we can move forward. My fear is that you, blinded by your anger at flaws of the Clinton-Gore Administration, may be instrumental in electing the worst.
After the 2000 election, Nader was not only unapologetic for handing Bush the presidency, he soon announced he'd do it again in the 2002 midterms:
He is not coy about his motives. Just as he ran for president to punish Gore and the Democrats…, now he wants to knock off congressional Democrats who have committed the same sins. As he put it, "The Democrats are going to have to lose more elections. They didn't get the message last time."
Danny Goldberg reported in Tikkun that Nader told supporters he wouldn't campaign late in swing states… Ronnie Dugger, the veteran journalist who nominated Nader at the Green convention, learned about Nader's battleground-barnstorming strategy long after the election. "Why hasn't Nader been building the Green Party for the last four years?… Nader was more interested in beating Gore than beating Bush."
Nader… spent the last days of the campaign in swing states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and, especially, Florida, which… he visited five times all told… And in Florida, though Nader's poll numbers dipped from 6 percent to 4 to his final 1.6, his 97,488 voters tipped the election.
Political scientists agree that the Green Party indeed gave the world President George W. Bush
Though any of many factors could have swung the race Gore's way, political scientists agree on one factor: that without Nader, Gore would have been President. Pat Buchanan, they concluded, might just as easily have had a similar impact on Bush. Political scientists from Dartmouth and UCLA wrote:
We find that … Nader was a spoiler for Gore.
From Harvard, in Stanford University Press:
Just a few hundred votes separated Bush from Gore, yet Nader received nearly 100,000 votes. If even a small fraction of his voters had chosen Gore instead, the Democrats would have won the presidency… Gore probably would have won without Nader in the picture…
Tellingly, this study also found:
Only 1 in ten Nader voters say they wish they could change their vote after knowing how close the election was.
From Rutgers University in Political Science Quarterly:
If Nader had not been on the ballot, Gore would have carried Florida and all of the other close states easily, giving him a comfortable electoral total of at least 292.
The tragic legacy of the Green Party's successful fight to stop Al Gore
The result of the Greens' role in the 2000 debacle was tragedy for America and the world:
… with Gore as president, we would not have invaded Iraq, which has cost more than 3,795 American and over one million Iraqi lives, and undermined America's reputation around the world. In addition, the scandals and misdeeds that have surrounded the Bush White House — the tax cuts for the rich, the rollback of environmental regulations, the attack on science on issues like stem cells and global warming, the overwhelming influence of the energy industrial complex, the evisceration of consumer and workplace safety laws, the failure to respond to the victims of Katrina, and the appointment of Supreme Court justices that created a majority that opposes reproductive choice, affirmative action, and workers rights — would not have occurred.
While Stein obsesses over imaginary questions about trace amounts of mercury in vaccines, what of her party's role in allowing roughly fifty tons of mercury every year to be spewed into the atmosphere from power plants while Bush was undermining the Clean Air Act's mercury rule throughout his term, and suppressing government scientists' research on rising mercury levels in children and pregnant women to levels that impair IQ and motor skills? It seems she was too busy supporting fraudster Andrew Wakefield in his efforts to sow vaccine paranoia over a preservative for which there's never been evidence of harm, as she just admitted this week:
I was part of a movement to remove mercury from vaccines. Incredibly, this public health win has been twisted to smear me as "anti-vaccine."
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 13, 2016
If there's one issue the Greens surrendered moral high ground on more than any other, it's climate change. In the years since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, which Bill Clinton endorsed, the Greens killed (by fighting to stop Al Gore), and Bush rejected:
The West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets have lost 5.5 trillion tons of ice…
The five-year average surface global temperature for January to October has risen by nearly two-thirds of a degree Fahrenheit…
The average glacier has lost about 39 feet…of ice thickness…
… carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels climbed nearly 50 percent…
The seas have risen nearly 2 1/2 inches… At its low point during the summer, the Arctic sea ice is on average 820,000 square miles smaller…
The five deadliest heat waves of the past century… have come…
The number of weather and climate disasters worldwide has increased 42 percent… Studies have shown that man-made climate change contributed in a number of recent weather disasters. Among those that climate scientists highlight as most significant: the 2003 European heat wave that killed 70,000 people…; Hurricane Sandy, worsened by sea level rise, which caused more than $67 billion in damage and claimed 159 lives; the 2010 Russian heat wave that left more than 55,000 dead; …Typhoon Haiyan, which killed more than 6,000 in the Philippines in 2013.
Will the Greens use their final weeks to target swing states as Nader did?
If a history is any guide, in these closing weeks of the election the Greens will not only fail to end campaigning in swing states, they will actually target them in an effort to peel away Clinton votes in favor of Trump.
Let's hope that the Greens discover enough conscience to break from that history in this zero hour.
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UN Regional Office for Central Africa and the Lord's Resistance Army
Now more than ever, UNOCA has an important role to play in conflict prevention, early warning, and mediation efforts in Central Africa. We welcome regional efforts to address these issues, and the assistance UNOCA is providing to support them.
- HE Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 29 May 2013.
Arria Formula Meeting on Implementing the UN Security Council's Women, Peace & Security Agenda
As the Council seeks to address the many complex and ongoing security challenges before it, including in Mali, Syria and the Democratic Republic of Congo, it is critical that we ensure strong gender mandates are included early, and implemented effectively.
- Mr Stephen Smith, MP, Australian Minister for Defence, Statement to the Arria Formula Meeting hosted by Australia and Guatemala on Implementing the UN Security Council's Women, Peace and Security Agenda on 17 May 2013.
The Situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Australia has a close association with Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the 1990s, Australian peacekeepers served alongside their EU and NATO counterparts to help build peace.
- HE Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 7 May 2013.
Human Trafficking - High Level Meeting
Human trafficking and related exploitative practices are abhorrent crimes. Around the world, slavery, servitude and forced labour are the daily reality for many millions of people. It is a deeply dehumanising practice from which no country is immune.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 14 May 2013.
Peace and Security in Africa
There is no doubt that Africa is the new theatre in the fight against terrorism. In the last week alone, we have seen stark reminders: suicide attacks targeting Malian and Nigerien soldiers in towns in northern Mali; coordinated attacks by alleged Boko Haram militants in north-eastern Nigeria; and a suicide car bomb by Al Shabaab against a convoy carrying a Qatari delegation in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 13 May 2013.
Al-Qaida Sanctions Committee - Briefing by the Chair
The threat posed by Al-Qaida to international peace and security remains a pressing dimension of a number of issues on the Council's agenda, not only in its deliberations on international terrorism, but across country situations, including Somalia, Mali and Yemen.
International Criminal Court - Libya
The situation in Libya demonstrates that the International Criminal Court can – and does – play a significant role in strengthening the rule of law in States undergoing post-conflict transition.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 8 May 2013.
Briefing by the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office
As members of the Council are aware, close cooperation between the Council and regional organisations, including the OSCE, can be a decisive component of our efforts to maintain international peace and security. Certainly, one of Australia's priorities during its Council term is to further encourage such cooperation, and the OSCE provides a good illustration of what is possible.
The Peacebuilding Commission, together with the Peacebuilding Fund and the Peacebuilding Support Office were established to fill gaps in the UN's capacity to assist post-conflict states to avoid such relapses. At that time, there was little in the way of peacebuilding architecure in other fora. The field is now relatively crowded. While it has been rightly acknowledged that the PBC has yet to realise its full potential, there are useful lessons we can draw on to provide it with guidance on fulfilling its core mandate.
- HE Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 25 April 2013.
The Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian Question
The deepening crisis around the conflict in Syria is rightly an overriding preoccupation. But we should not be deterred from the imperative of reinvigorating the peace process between Israel and Palestine. Australia remains firmly committed to a lasting resolution of this conflict.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 24 April 2013.
Sexual violence in conflict
Sexual violence is a brutal, unacceptable but pervasive dimension of today's conflict. We must constantly think about how we can prevent it from occurring, and when it does, to ensure survivors are supported and perpetrators held relentlessly to account.
Prevention of conflicts in Africa: Addressing root causes
There is never any question that prevention is better than cure. Prevention can save countless lives and untold trauma and grief. It can also avoid enduring economic disadvantage and erosion of development gains.
The Role of International Criminal Justice and Reconciliation
Australia takes this opportunity to record its emphatic support for international criminal justice. My country is committed to upholding international criminal law in our own courts. We are committed to supporting the efforts of other jurisdictions to investigate and prosecute allegations of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. And we are committed to supporting each of the international criminal courts and tribunals that have been established to ensure that those accused of committing serious international crimes are held to account.
- Ms Julia O'Brien, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 11 April 2013.
Australia's commitment to an Arms Trade Treaty has since the beginning been driven primarily by our humanitarian concerns. We owe it to those millions – often the most vulnerable in society – whose lives have been overshadowed by the irresponsible and illicit international trade in arms.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 2 April 2013.
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)
A broad and substantial political settlement to the question of Kosovo is now within reach. Australia joins the Secretary-General and other Council members in encouraging both Prime Ministers to continue their dialogue with the determination to bring about lasting stability not only in Kosovo and between Serbia and Kosovo, but in the broader Balkan region.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 22 March 2013.
Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty
We cannot allow the catastrophic impact of the illegal trade in arms to continue to harm humanity, especially when we know a major cause – the inadequate control of trade in conventional arms – and we know that we can do something to fix it now.
- Senator the Honourable Bob Carr, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Statement to the Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty on 20 February 2013.
United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)
Creating durable and transformative change such as that being undertaken by Haiti takes time. Strengthening institutions and establishing good governance to the stage of providing security, justice and jobs and breaking cycles of poverty and violence is a long term effort.
- HE Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 20 March 2013.
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
As Afghanistan moves through transition to its transformation decade, it is important to note the progress that has been made over the last ten years. Afghanistan – through the leadership of its Government, determination of its fine people and support of the international community – has come a long way.
- Senator the Honourable Bob Carr, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 19 February 2013.
Australia has no tolerance for violence against women and girls. Violence, in all its forms – physical, sexual or psychological – is unacceptable. It is a universal issue that affects women of all backgrounds, races, cultures and economic circumstances. Living safe and free from violence is everyone's right, and reducing violence is everyone's responsibility. Domestically and internationally – including through our aid program and advocacy – Australia is actively contributing towards a world where women and girls can thrive and where their safety is guaranteed.
- The Hon Julie Collins, MP, Minister for Indigenous Employment and Economic Development, Minister for Community Services, Minister for the Status of Women, Statement to the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women on 5 March 2013.
All evidence shows us that peacekeeping still remains a responsive, dynamic and necessary tool to assist the work of the international community in its efforts to maintain international peace and security.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations, on behalf of CANZ (Canada, Australia and New Zealand) on 19 February 2013.
Protection is not just at the core of the Council's responsibility. It should also be the Council's moral compass. More than any other issue, we will be judged by our actions and by our failures to act on protection challenges.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 12 February 2013.
The continuing stalemate in the Middle East peace process has implications for the region's stability and economic development. So too does the worsening conflict in Syria, which will soon enter into its third year.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 23 January 2013.
UN Peacekeeping: A Multi-Dimensional Approach
Australia welcomes the evolution in the approach to peacekeeping over the past decade, which has seen a recognition of the complex, multidimensional issues that can be associated with such missions.
- The Hon Dr Mike Kelly AM, MP, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Defence, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 21 January 2013.
Comprehensive Approach to Counter-Terrorism
As a newly-elected Security Council member, Australia will strongly support the Council's ongoing efforts to combat and prevent terrorism. As the threat continues to evolve, our strategies to counter it also need to improve. The Council's role will continue to be central in this. No matter how hard the task, we must be a step ahead.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 15 January 2013.
Peacebuilding is vital work. Ensuring we take advantage of the critical post-conflict window to shore up peace and stability and prevent a return to conflict is one of the most important endeavours we can undertake.
- Mr Will Nankervis, Acting Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 20 December 2012.
Australia remains committed to supporting Afghanistan to assume full responsibility for its own security, and to bringing enhanced opportunities for its people to improve their livelihoods in a safe and secure environment.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 19 December 2012.
There is a clear consensus that the early involvement of women in conflict prevention, resolution, and peace-building promotes lasting peace, and helps in the realisation of gender equality.
- Mr Michael Bliss, Minister Counsellor, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 30 November 2012.
Sport for Peace and Development
Sport's popularity, its capacity as a communication platform and its ability to connect people make it a tool that can be used to meet a range of development objectives, including contributing to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
- Mr Peter Stone, Adviser, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 November 2012.
The Situation in Afghanistan
Australia welcomes the opportunity to co-sponsor the General Assembly's resolution on Afghanistan again in 2012 – a crucial year for the partnership between Afghanistan and the international community, during which we made strong commitments to support Afghanistan's future.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 27 November 2012.
CANZ delegations are strong supporters of increased mobility in the United Nations. We often hear that human resources are the most important resources to the Organisation. CANZ firmly believes this. This is why we have to make sure we are putting in place a strong mobility framework which has the support of both staff and the General Assembly.
- Mr Emil Stojanovski, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Fifth Committee regarding agenda item 135 on 21 November 2012.
Maintenance of International Peace and Security - Piracy
Maritime security – including safe and secure sea lanes – is vital to the trade that underpins global economic growth. Martime security and oceanic governance are central to the "blue economy", on which island nations – such as those in Australia's region – are reliant for their economic stability and livelihoods.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 19 November 2012.
The Situation in Timor-Leste
The Timorese people have shown tremendous resilience over the past decade as they set about building a new nation. While UNMIT and the ISF have made their contribution, the real credit for the peace and progress enjoyed today must go to the Timorese people themselves.
Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
As a proud multi-faith, multi-ethnic and multicultural society, Australia encourages respect for religious differences and firmly protects the right of people of all religions to practice their beliefs without intimidation or harassment.
- Ms Tanisha Hewanpola, First Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on 6 November 2012.
Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency
The external environment in which the Agency operates is highly fluid, and we must ensure the Agency has the capacity to respond quickly and effectively to external developments, be they related to nuclear safety, physical protection, nuclear proliferation or sustainable development.
- The Hon Laurie Ferguson, Member of Parliament of Australia, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 5 November 2012.
Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
The elimination of racial discrimination remains a key priority for the Australia Government. To build a fair and inclusive community where racism is a thing of the past, governments, citizens, corporations and community groups alike must take concerted action against racism, racial discrimination and prejudice, whenever they see it.
Capital Master Plan
CANZ delegations wish to reiterate our strong commitment to seeing the CMP project through to its successful completion. We will work constructively with all other delegations to ensure that the project is delivered in as expeditious, efficient and affordable manner as possible.
- Mr Emil Stojanovski, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of Australia to the United Nations on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Fifth Committee regarding agenda item 130 on 5 November 2012.
For missions to be effective, they require planning, preparation and partnership. A comprehensive approach to mission planning is required to ensure mission mandates are clear and achievable, and that they have the resources and capabilities required to implement them.
- Colonel Roger Barrett, Military Attaché, Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee on 2 November 2012.
Report of the International Court of Justice
CANZ strongly believes that wider acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court would enable it to fulfil its role more effectively.
- Mr Richard Rowe, Senior Legal Adviser, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ), Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 1 November 2012.
Australia accords the highest priority to Indigenous issues and is encouraged that these are being given due recognition and attention by the United Nations and Member States. However, while substantial progress has been made to promote and protect the rights of Indigenous peoples, we, like others, recognise that much more needs to be done.
- Ms Tanisha Hewanpola, First Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on 22 October 2012.
The Rights of Children
Children are the future of our nation. We consider them to be a precious resource which needs to be given every opportunity to learn and to grow and to flourish. Ensuring this requires that their rights and needs are respected and promoted. This is fundamental.
Promotion and strengthening of the rule of law in the maintenance of international peace and security
Ensuring accountability for international crimes is a key component of peacebuilding and conflict prevention.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 17 October 2012.
The Situation in the Middle East
In a period of tremendous change in the Arab world, the status quo in the Middle East Peace Process is simply untenable. The status quo will not provide the lasting peace and security which Palestinians, Israelis and all the peoples of the region deserve.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 15 October 2012.
Advancement of Women
The UN's ongoing commitment and focus on gender issues is critical to the advancement of women everywhere, and Australia is strongly supportive of these efforts.
Development Agenda
These are some of the most important and pressing issues of our time. They are at the core of the Second Committee's work. And as we undertake the task of turning our words into action, Australia is firmly committed to doing our part.
- The Hon Laurie Ferguson, Member of Parliament of Australia, Statement to the High Level Meeting of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on 9 October 2012.
Within Australia's broad commitment to the multilateral system, we have always placed historically disarmament and non-proliferation at the top of our agenda.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly First Committee on 8 October 2012.
As recognised by the Secretary-General, youth are a transformative force and have the potential to act as agents for change.
- Mr Dan Ryan, Australian Youth Delegate, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee on 8 October 2012.
Australia has been a long time champion of small states, from our negotiating position during the UN Charter negotiations in 1945, where we advocated for equal rights for all states, to our current approach across the broad multilateral agenda. It is the way we work, it is what we stand for. We recommit to continuing to work closely with FOSS member states in the future.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the Forum of Small States on 1 October 2012.
Australia is committed to ensuring the continued success of the OPCW beyond the destruction of all chemical weapons, so that it can work with States Parties to meet the non-proliferation challenges of today and tomorrow, and chemical weapons will never be used again.
Transnational Organised Crime in Central America and the Caribbean
This problem has acute ramifications for the region – but it is a global problem. It is about our global security as well as the realisation of the MDGs. And so it needs global solidarity now.
- H.E. Mr Peter Woolcott, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Geneva, Intervention to the United Nations High Level Interactive Presentation on "Transnational Organised Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment" on 28 September 2012.
In order to ensure terrorists do not succeed in their aims, we must build capacity so that countries can better secure radioactive sources, and respond effectively when sources are discovered beyond regulatory control.
- H.E. Mr Peter Woolcott, Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Geneva, Statement to the United Nations High Level Meeting on Countering Nuclear Terrorism, with a Focus on Strengthening the Legal Framework on 28 September 2012.
United Nations General Debate
Australia embraces the high ideals of the United Nations and takes a practical approach to achieving change. The work of the United Nations is an historic task in which Australia wholeheartedly joins.
- The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September 2012.
Education First Initiative
Education is vital to prosperity for nations and to opportunity for individuals it is the ultimate means of a civilised life for every person. I am delighted to join my fellow Education Champions who are determined to put education first.
- The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, Statement to the High level Political Launch of the United Nations Secretary-General's "Education First" Initiative on 26 September 2012.
The New Deal: G7+ Perspectives and Experiences
Together we can deliver change. Our commitment to the New Deal must not waver. The world's poorest and most vulnerable need us now.
- The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, Statement to the High-level side event on 'The New Deal: Perspectives of the g7+' on 26 September 2012.
High Level Meeting on the Sahel
Australia commends the governments of the Sahel region for their efforts to address the humanitarian crisis. As friends and partners, we stand ready to support regionally-led solutions. There is much to do – our partners in the Sahel region can be confident Australia will do its part.
- The Hon Julia Gillard MP, Prime Minister of Australia, Statement to the United Nations High Level Meeting on the Sahel on 26 September 2012.
High Level Meeting on the Rule of Law
Let us ensure that the work of this high-level meeting – and this important Declaration - leads to practical progress towards the UN's highest ideals of security, development and human rights for all the peoples of the world.
- The Hon Richard Marles MP, Australian Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Statement to the United Nations High Level Meeting on the Rule of Law on 24 September 2012.
2012 will be remembered as the year when the common goal of a secure and stable Afghanistan, with strong prospects for long-term economic and social development, was underwritten by unprecedented support from the international community.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 20 September 2012.
The Security Council has taken significant steps in recent years to highlight the importance of protecting children in armed conflict. But we can actually never do enough to protect children. They are, after all, our future.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 19 September 2012.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Australia is working to ensure that mainstream services, programs and infrastructure are responsive to the needs of people with disability, their families and carers for the decades to come.
- Mr Evan Lewis, Group Manager, Disability and Carers - Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, Statement to the Fifth Conference of States Parties to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on 12 September 2012.
Responsibility to Protect
It is essential that we work to sharpen the collective tools available to us under the Charter of the United Nations to effectively prevent and respond to mass atrocity crimes.
- H.E. Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 5 September 2012.
Open-ended Working Group on Ageing
Australia is committed to implementing policies and programmes to better improve the wellbeing of older Australians and to implement our human rights obligations to them.
- Ms Tanisha Hewanpola, First Secretary, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the Third Session of the United Nations Open-ended Working Group on Ageing on 21 August 2012.
The Commission on the Status of Women represents the central opportunity each year for us all to hold focused discussions on gender equality and the advancement of women. Importantly, it enables all stakeholders to collaborate and consider critically our progress in implementing international commitments on gender equality.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Economic and Social Council on 27 July 2012.
Arms Trade Treaty Conference
We have a unique opportunity now to secure agreement on what would represent a massive achievement for the United Nations. This will potentially benefit many hundreds of millions of people whose lives, well-being and economic circumstances are threatened by the illicit and unregulated trade in conventional arms.
- H. E. Peter Woolcott, Australian Ambassador for Disarmament, Statement to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty Conference on 26 July 2012.
We have seen elsewhere in the region - including most recently in Libya - that the most effective means for balancing the competing interests inherent in any society is for the establishment of fair and inclusive democratic processes that enable all citizens and groups to give voice to their views and to select a government that can represent them.
- H. E. Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 25 July 2012.
We take seriously our role in the collective enterprise of building peace. I would like to assure you of our commitment to ensuring the Peacebuilding Commission continues to develop so that it can deliver genuine change to the lives of people in countries emerging from conflict.
Development Cooperation Forum
Sustainable development can only work if we innovate with partnerships.To make sustainable development a reality, it is not just one form of cooperation we need, but many.The world is changing and development cooperation needs to respond in an innovative way.This year's United Nations International Year of Cooperatives reminds us that we need to put people at the centre of this change – to empower them to make development happen to achieve great outcomes.
- Senator the Honorable Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, Statement at the United Nations Economic and Social Council Development Cooperation Forum on 5 July 2012.
Partnering for Peace
Australia's peacekeeping and peacebuilding experiences in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, and in Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.
We need an Arms Trade Treaty that establishes the highest possible international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms; one that would promote much needed accountability and transparency in the global arms trade.
- Senator the Honorable Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, Statement at the Opening Session of the Arms Trade Treaty Conference on 3 July 2012.
Economic and Social Council General Debate
We can only fight poverty through inclusive development approaches and partnerships that expand employment opportunities, ensure decent jobs and improve livelihoods for families and communities. I look forward to the adoption of the Annual Ministerial Declaration, and to its implementation: putting jobs at the heart of our actions to create stronger, more equitable and sustainable growth on the path to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
- Senator the Honorable Bob Carr, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia, Statement to the Economic and Social Council General Debate on 3 July 2012.
United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
The fight against terrorism remains a critical priority for Australia. As we all know too well, terrorism continues to kill and maim innocent people; it damages property and infrastructure, fosters fear in local communities, undermines social and economic confidence and, in many cases, entrenches the forces of poverty.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 June 2012.
2012 is proving to be a major milestone for Afghanistan as it works with its international partners - in a spirit of mutual commitment – to ensure the gains in security, development, governance, and human rights made over the past decade are maintained.
- H. E. Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations Security Council on 27 June 2012.
Crime as a Threat to Development
Countries with the greatest development needs are often the target of unscrupulous transnational criminal networks. Our discussion has illustrated the importance of integrated responses - working at national, regional and multilateral levels, addressing transnational organised crime and drugs holistically with development, and - as the panel has emphasised - supporting rule of law and security sector institutions.
- Mr Will Nankervis, Counsellor, Australian Mission to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 26 June 2012.
We must rebuild consensus on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. This consensus is vital. Responding to threats to civilians must be at the very centre of our efforts in the field of peace and security. Indeed, this work goes to the very purpose and identify of this organization.
The Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
The targets which were adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2011 offer, for the first time, quantified, achievable targets - targets which are based on current realities. But without an immediate change in the way we work, these targets risk becoming yet another set of targets that we fail to reach. As the Secretary-General's Report notes, we are not on track to achieve the targets.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 11 June 2012.
The Convention on the Law of the Sea
Our 'Constitution for the Oceans' creates a framework for interaction with two-thirds of the earth's surface. This is a singular achievement. But it has broader significance – the promotion of peace by supplanting arbitrary action with the rule of law and by ensuring that, when disagreements arise, we share a common vocabulary with which to seek peaceful solutions.
- H.E. Ms Philippa King, Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the 22nd Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on 8 June 2012.
The Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
Australia strongly supports Joint Special Envoy Annan's efforts to implement his six-point peace plan - endorsed by the international community, including the UN Security Council and the Arab League - the best chance for a resolution to the crisis in Syria.
- HE Mr Gary Quinlan, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Australia to the United Nations, Statement to the United Nations General Assembly on 7 June 2012.
Protecting and empowering populations is essential to shaping long-term, effective and sustainable responses because it builds capacity, understanding and resilience amongst individuals and communities. We need to ensure our collective actions are not fragmented, that they focus on prevention and that they benefit directly affected populations. The human security concept provides a normative framework to do just this, which is why Australia supports it.
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The brightest pair of binary stars in the night sky; one is a blue-white main sequence dwarf and it's companion is a faint white dwarf. Sirius is located in the constellation Canis Major and as a most visable star is often called the "Dog Star"
The name Sirius comes from Greek and means "Scorcher"; and in Greek mythology Sirius is Orion's hunting dog. And before that, in Egypt the stars Sirius where worshiped as "Sothis".
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November 29, 2016 - Haylee Nichole Cantrell, 16, passed away November 29, 2016 at Greenville Memorial Medical Center.
A native of Greenville county, daughter of Shane and Tina Howard Cantrell of Greer, she was a student at Travelers Rest High School and of the Baptist faith.
November 21, 2016 - Billy "Bill" Leon McGregor, 87, died Nov. 21, 2016 at Brushy Creek Cottages.
A native of Greenville County, he was a retired AT&T employee, a U.S. Marine Corps Korean War Veteran and a member of Praise Cathedral.
November 20, 2016 - Doris May Stead, 85, died Nov. 20, 2016 at her home.
A native of Washington, DC, daughter of the late Clark and Grace Shelton May, she was a real estate agent in Fairfax, VA, and a member of Taylors First Baptist Church.
A native of Washington, DC, daughter of the late Clark and Grace Shelton May, she was a real estate agent in Fairfax, Virginia and a member of Taylors First Baptist Church.
November 18, 2016 - James Harold Smith, 94, passed away Friday, November 18, 2016, at McCall Hospice House.
A native of Spartanburg County, he was a son of the late Andrew Clyde and Kate Cox Smith; a former employee of J.P. Stevens, U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and of the Baptist faith.
November 17, 2016 - Diane Allison Morgan, 48, passed away November 17, 2016 at Hillcrest Memorial Hospital.
A native of Greer, she was the daughter of Julius A. Morgan, Jr. and Cay Terrill Morgan of Greer, and was of the Assembly of God Faith.
November 13, 2016 - William G. (Sonny) Boroughs, 80, passed away on November 13, 2016 after a long battle with cancer.
Mr. Boroughs was born in Barhamsville, Virginia to the late David and Margaret Zawodny Boroughs.
He was married to Delores H. Boroughs, he served in the U.S. Air Force and retired from Winn-Dixie. Sonny was a faithful member of Fairview Baptist Church and was known for the Sonny's B.B.Q. at Big Thursday and the vegetables he shared.
November 12, 2016 - Mary Magdeline Sweezy Bates, 87, awoke in the arms of her Lord and Savior on November 12, 2016. She always loved a beautiful sunrise.
Mary always said that no work of art could compare to the handiwork of God.
Heavenly Home and was reunited with her beloved, husband, John, in addition to other family members.
Born in Greenwood, Mary was the daughter of the late James Edward Sweezy and Sallie Hoxit Sweezy.
She was a beloved mother, Mimi, sister, aunt, and friend. She had a wonderful sense of humor and loved of her family dearly.
Mary was a charter member of Praise Cathedral.
November 11, 2016 - Martha "Mot" Jane Campbell Hill, 78, passed away on November 11, 2016 at The Cottages at Brushy Creek.
A native of Greer, daughter of the late George H. and Earline M. Blanton Campbell, she was a homemaker and a member of Apalache Baptist Church.
November 11, 2016 - Scott E. Holtzclaw, 66, died November 11, 2016 at his home.
A native of Statesville, N.C., son of the late Clyde and Patricia Borden Holtzclaw, he was a Real Estate broker associate and of the Baptist faith.
Scott was a loving husband and father, he was very dedicated to his work.
Mr. Holtzclaw was passionate for his fellow man, he had a kind heart and always saw the best in people.
He was an avid Gamecock fan and he will be dearly missed, gone but never forgotten.
November 8, 2016 - Lillian Dolores Bruce Epperly, 90, widow of Raymond Emmit Epperly, passed away Tuesday, November 8, 2016. They were married for 61 years.
Born in Fairmont, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Madaline Davis Bruce Sholl and Genessee Bruce, a homemaker and member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church.
Dolores worked as an assistant to decorators at Lazarus in Columbus, Ohio.
November 6, 2016 - Michael Anthony Semones, Sr., 69, died November 6, 2016.
A native of Greenville County, son of the late James Kent and Frances Corene Bridges Semones, he was the former owner of Single Source Supply and a member of Blessed Trinity Catholic Church.
November 5, 2016 - Rev. Francis "Frank" Craig Keels, 65, passed away November 5, 2016.
A native of Pinewood, South Carolina, he was a son of Sarah Reid Keels of Pinewood, South Carolina and the late W.R. Keels, Jr.
Rev. Keels was a retired Southern Baptist Minister having served the following churches: Spears Creek Baptist Church, Columbia; Ashley Heights Baptist Church, North Charleston; Hopewell Baptist Church, Parkers Ferry, South Carolina; Cheraw Baptist Church, Cheraw; First Baptist Church, Morrisville, North Carolina; Clearview Baptist Church, Charleston; Westside Baptist Church, Greenwood; Rosewood Baptist Church, Columbia; Cornerstone Baptist Church, St. Cloud, Florida; and Abner Creek Baptist Church, Greer.
He was the founder of Frank Keels Evangelistic Association, served on the Board of South Carolina Baptist Convention and Greer Baptist Association.
Rev. Keels served as an International Missionary in Africa, Indonesia, Korea and Russia.
He was a member of Burnsview Baptist Church, Greer.
November 4, 2016 - Tamera Angeline Newell Somers, 75, went to be with the Lord on November 4, 2016.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Angeline moved constantly as a child, finally settling in Spartanburg, SC; later moving to Greenville working for Guest Studio as office manager and photographer.
She was a daughter of the late William H. and Dorothy Hix Newell, a housewife, was of the Baptist faith, and served as hostess for First Baptist Church of Greer for many years.
Angeline was a friend to all and an avid tennis player.