* Open Letter to Progressive Democrats
by Paul Felton
March 30, 2004
Dear Progressive Democrat:
I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 and I'm proud of it. You voted for
Nader and you regret it (or, you voted for Gore, even though you
liked Nader better).
Ever since then, you participated in a
Lou wrote:
Ali said he would be delighted to see Bush defeated in November's
presidential election. He added that he did not have illusions in
the US Democratic Party's John Kerry, who at best would put some
clothes on the empire, but Bush's defeat would be seen globally
as a slap in the face for
* 2004 PRIMARY TURNOUT LOW
March 9, 2004
GROUPED PRIMARIES LOWER THAN INDIVIDUALS
BETTER SELECTION METHOD NEEDED
Curtis Gans
Contrary to some published reports and with the singular exception of
the New Hampshire Democratic primary which set a new record high,
Democratic turnout in the
At 9:37 AM -0800 3/31/04, Devine, James wrote:
does it mean anything that Air America has the same name as the
old CIA-sponsored independent airline in Southeast Asia (involved
in war and drug smuggling)?
It appears that Air America has failed to take off:
* The New York Times, April 1,
I appreciate the recirculation.
I'd like to note that in the beginning of the post I said
I was voting for Kerry, though that could change.
mbs
The more you think about Kerry's program, the less likely it is for
you to vote for him. :-)
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now!
* There Never Were Any Good Old Days In The Democratic Party
by Howie Hawkins
March 1, 2004
A liberation movement for the Democratic Party is one of the goals
Ralph Nader stated for his campaign in the question and answer period
of his February 23 press conference announcing his 2004
Lou wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Mr. Franken's guests included Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic
senator from Nebraska who is now a member of the Sept. 11
commission, the documentary filmmaker Michael Moore and, as a
caller from Tennessee, former Vice President Al Gore. (Hi, Al,
Mr. Franken
At 11:23 AM -0500 4/1/04, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
I heard some Randi Rhodes yesterday.
She had Nader on as a guest and kept shouting over him with stupid
questions ('who will you caucus with if you are president?'). He
wasn't too good either, but there wasn't much he could do. He hung
up.
That
That basically sums up the problem of Air America. Talk radio on
the right never gets more angry with right-wingers to the right of
the Republican Party than with liberals and leftists whom they
simply and smartly classify in the same category. That's right-wing
talk radio's recipe for success.
Sometimes it seems that liberals attract more fire on PEN-L than
does the bourgeoisie. I could understand this if we were in a period
of proto- or quasi-revolutionary ferment, when they'd be the
co-opters and/or betrayers. But right now, anyone in public life who
stands up for vaguely egalitarian
* [T]his liberal radio network [Air America] faces numerous
obstacles in capturing a substantial audience, in particular finding
a critical mass of stations that will broadcast its voices. The
network has already fallen behind in its initial goal, announced last
year, of owning five stations
* The New York Times, April 1, 2004
White House, With Support, Vows to Finish Mission in Iraq
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, April 1 - The White House, buoyed by support from a
Democratic rival and a maverick Republican, vowed today that the
United States would finish its peacekeeping mission in
* Even if their applications are rejected, citizens of
developing nations must pay $100 for a non-immigrant visa to the
United States. . . .
The unfairness is obvious: people should not be charged for something
- in this case, a visa to the United States - that they do not
receive. And $100
* March 29, 2004
KERRY'S TAX CUT MAKES ME WANNA RALPH
. . . I do not look forward to a restoration of the economic policy
of Robert Rubin, but the release of Kerry's first major economic
proposal promises exactly that. The personnel are certainly falling
into place - Roger Altman and Gene
At 12:08 PM -0500 3/30/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
a UN force without the U.S. to replace the U.S.
Who do they think will contribute the troops to make up a UN force
without the US?
--
Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
Doug Henwood wrote:
a UN force without the U.S. to replace the U.S.
Yoshie asks:
Who do they think will contribute the troops to make up a UN force
without the US?
the Arab League has been mentioned...
JD
How many troops does the Arab League have and how many of them can
they afford to send to
Is this the same Arab League whose summit just collapsed or is this
a different Arab League?
* No lost sleep over the postponed summit
By Danny Rubinstein
The Palestinian leadership was not especially disappointed yesterday
when it learned of the postponement of the Arab summit conference
What's China's share of all government purchases of U.S. assets?
* A trade deficit must be financed by net borrowing from the
rest of the world. The United States was effectively spending about
5% more than it was producing last year, but cannot continue to
borrow at such a high rate
Since you clearly don't want to read the actual poll, let me supply
some highlights for you. These results don't sound like they're
coming from people too terrified to speak their minds.
Doug
Here is one input from one of those from that part of the world, who
is not terrified to speak his mind.
At 1:06 PM -0500 3/29/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Under such conditions, you can't trust any Western opinion polls of
Iraqis to reflect Iraqi opinions accurately, for Iraqis can't speak
their minds freely:
They don't seem shy about expressing their opinions to reporters for
foreign wire services or
On Monday, March 29, 2004 at 13:16:10 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
Yes, more than 1,000 supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
demonstrated peacefully, but that is a tiny minority in the nation
of 24,683,313 (July 2003 est.,
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html), and
even
At 2:49 PM -0500 3/29/04, Louis Proyect wrote:
I don't think the issue is whether you can protest in the streets in
Iraq. Obviously you can. This is not exactly Pinochet's Chile,
although down the road it might come to that.
It is really more a question of determining what Iraqis think about
the
Bill, you're trying to reason, which is often a dead end. Even
though half of Baghdadis polled expressed dislike of Bush and Blair
and thought the U.S. was after their oil, and almost a fifth
expressed support for attacks on U.S. forces, their expression of
worry about what might happen (e.g.
Across the country, in small towns and big cities, the families of
our National Guard and military Reserves are having trouble paying
the bills. Many are barely treading water. Some go under. Many
households of Reservists -- 30 percent, according to a 2002 Pentagon
estimate -- lose income when
http://www.fundrace.org/
--
Yoshie
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*
The virtue of the Condorcet method is its ability to eliminate the
pressure on voters to vote to defeat the least desirable candidate
rather than reveal their true preferences, by allowing voters to rank
the candidates (like Instant Runoff Voting) and by refusing to
eliminate the candidate with
* Last Updated: Wednesday, 24 March, 2004, 16:17 GMT
Oregon county bans all marriages
Confused by the twists and turns of the US gay marriage issue,
Oregon's Benton County has decided to err on the side of caution and
ban all weddings.
Until the state decides who can and cannot wed,
Lou wrote;
Until there is a level playing field in Iraq, it seems rather
pointless to pay attention to Western pollsters.
It's mind-boggling for leftists such as Milan Rai to suggest that
Western pollsters, whose governments are belligerent occupiers in
Iraq, could get honest answers from the
At 2:27 PM -0500 3/26/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
It's mind-boggling for leftists such as Milan Rai to suggest that
Western pollsters, whose governments are belligerent occupiers in
Iraq, could get honest answers from the Iraqis whom they survey in
the occupied territory. How would the Iraqis know if
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Are the current occupiers in Iraq the first belligerent occupier in
history to poll the occupied in the hope of having the world accept
the polling results as a justification for the occupation?
Did you actually read the results of the Gallup Poll? The opinions
were very
At 4:07 PM -0800 3/26/04, Devine, James wrote:
people do often reply to polls by saying what they feel they ought to say.
They often do even under normal circumstances in the United States
(e.g., Americans overstate their church attendance).
Doug and Joel ought to remember that Iraq is *under
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
It's absurd to think that the occupied can freely say what they
believe if they suspect that they have a good chance of talking to
an informer.
Then why did nearly 20% say that it was ok to attack U.S. troops?
Why did something like 50% say they had unfavorable opinions
At 6:29 PM -0500 3/26/04, Joel Wendland wrote:
Most Iraqis of a democratic perpsuasion would prefer the presence of
UN peacekeepers for the maintenance of security. Ahmed Chalabi,
Bush's point man in the IGC, has tried to deny this and say that
Iraqis don't want or need a UN presence, but he and
At 9:20 PM -0500 3/26/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Doug and Joel ought to remember that Iraq is *under foreign
military occupation conducting counterinsurgency warfare* with
censorship, checkpoints, house raids, arbitrary arrest and
detention, no due process, etc. -- i.e. Iraqis do not have freedom
of
Probably shouldn't confuse a UN assessment team and advisor that
won't even number the same as the 1,000 bureaucrats that were in
Iraq last September.
The United Nations is in the business of supporting what Washington wants:
*Bremer: Vote may be 15 months away
By Edmund Sanders
Los
At 9:17 PM -0600 3/26/04, Carrol Cox wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
At 4:07 PM -0800 3/26/04, Devine, James wrote:
people do often reply to polls by saying what they feel they ought to say.
They often do even under normal circumstances in the United
States (e.g., Americans overstate their church
* This essay is from Confronting Capitalism, a new collection
from Softskull edited by Eddie Yuen, George Katsiafikas and Daniel
Burton Rose and to be published in the coming months.
Insurgent Chinese Workers and Peasants:
The 'Weak Link' in Capitalist Globalization and U.S. Imperialism (1)
* Nader Begins Push to Qualify for State Ballots
Wed Mar 24, 2004 01:43 PM ET
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ralph Nader's wild-card presidential bid is
gearing up over the next few months for its biggest challenge --
navigating a maze of local
* July 15, 2003
Intermediate Roman Catholic
Americans are blessed to have a highly intelligent crop of candidates
to choose from in the upcoming presidential race.
President Bush's mental prowess is well known and needs no further
examination here (at least for today). But Democrats are
What is this guy's programme?
http://www.votenader.org/issues/index.php
--
Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
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* Student
to churches and synagogues.
Yoshie Furuhashi of the International Student Forum at Ohio State
University said the peace movement lost some momentum when the war
began, but gained supporters when the United States met guerrilla
resistance and failed to uncover weapons of mass destruction.
And local
* I [John Kerry] led the fight to put 100,000 cops on the
street in 1994. - Jan. 30, Wilmington, Del.
Kerry was very involved in shaping the 1994 anti-crime bill that
included a Clinton administration initiative to help localities hire
100,000 more police officers.
(Maria L. La Ganga and
Marvin Gandall wrote:
Though widely decried as stupid...
why is this assassination considered stupid? isn't it obvious
israeli strategy to incite hamas into becoming the primary
opposition, thus sidelining more moderate elements with whom they
(israel) may be forced to negotiate with by their
Former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader Gives his
First Major Address on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tuesday,
June 17th, 2003:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/17/1359238 and
http://www.democracynow.org/transcripts/nader.shtml.
--
Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now!
* A Rebuttal to Senator Kerry's Statement on Venezuela
Monday, Mar 22, 2004
By: Gregory Wilpert - Venezuelanalysis.com
Senator Kerry's press statement was issued on March 19, 2004.
Italic text is Senator Kerry's statement. Plain text is Gregory
Wilpert's rebuttal.
_With the future of the
Who will be the Republican presidential candidate in 2008?
--
Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html,
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* Student International
Chomsky fears the people around Bush are very deeply committed to
dismantling the achievements of popular struggle through the past
centurythe present group in power is particularly cruel and savage in this
respect.
The people around Bush are cruder and franker about their intentions
to dismantle
* Published on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 by the Guardian/UK
Surge in Support for Nader Spells Trouble for Kerry
by Julian Borger in Washington
A new poll suggested yesterday that Ralph Nader's independent
presidential bid represented a serious threat to the Democratic
candidate, Senator John
* Posted on Sun, Mar. 14, 2004
Muslim Americans rallying to get out vote in November
By ANN PEPPER
Orange County Register
. . . American Arabs and Muslims always vote in large numbers. An
estimated 79 percent are registered and 85 percent of those say they
vote, according to a 2001 poll
Please do all you can to attend El II Encuentro. If you are a
journalist, please cover the event -- if you do not speak Spanish and
need an English-speaking Venezuelan interviewee, contact Dozthor
Zurlent [EMAIL PROTECTED].
* From: 2 ENCUENTRO MUNDIAL DE SOLIDARIDAD CON LA REVOLUCION
Among the liberal pundits who cry Anybody But Bush, it's open
season on Ralph Nader and the Green Party. Some wonder why the
Democratic leaders and intellectuals attack Nader and the Greens,
especially given that more Democrats voted for Bush than Nader in
2000: Bush received the votes of 12
At 10:46 PM -0500 3/17/04, Julio Huato wrote:
Today in the U.S., continual agitation of the sort described by Marx
can and must be conducted (not only but also) within the DP.
Not cost-effective. It costs a left-wing candidate more to run in
the Democratic presidential caucuses and primaries than
(Cf. In 1996, Nader opted to cap his campaign expenditures at
$5,000 and ended up with 581,000 votes. Nader's DPV: $0.01, says
Norman Solomon in News That Still Goes Unreported: 'Dollars Per
Vote' at http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980604.html -- our
Consumer Advocate sure knows how to get his
I did vote for him in 2000 (in Calif.); his silence since the last
election has been deafening. I will not vote for him again. If I'm
going to throw away a vote I'd rather give it to Camejo or a
socialist candidate.
Joanna
To vote for Kerry in California is to throw away a vote. Camejo,
if he
At 10:20 PM -0500 3/16/04, Michael Hoover wrote:
my mother is my political barometer and she and her husband are in
anybody but bush camp, she's worried (incorrectly imo) that nader
will help put bush back in white house, folks like her who think
that are much more important than all nation
If history is any guide, the Greens (and others) will not be able to
change the American electoral system, and the Green Party (or any
other Third Party on the left) will not be able to replace the
Democratic Party, by agitating for Instant Runoff Voting and
proportional representation in
Dave wrote:
I sympathize with you Justin. I returned to live in the US from
abroad and I think that might have something to do with your
pessimism (especially if you frequent certain circles for work etc)
Now that Justin is a rich lawyer, his career as a poor professor of
philosophy derailed by
Good news for the Green Party -- Camejo taking the lead in the Green
Party primaries, and the Green Party is likely to nominate the
Nader/Camejo combo:
* March 14, 2004
Camejo takes the lead
Peter Camejo won 99 of 132 state delegates in the California
primaries, garnering 75.4 percent of the
* The New York Times
March 13, 2004
Brown University to Examine Debt to Slave Trade
By PAM BELLUCK
PROVIDENCE, R.I., - When Ruth J. Simmons became the president of
Brown University nearly three years ago, one striking fact could not
be overlooked.
A great-granddaughter of slaves, Dr. Simmons
Today is the one year anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie.
Please join a vigil in your city or fax, call, and/or email your
Representative in Congress and ask him/her to cosponsor the Rachel
Corrie Resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 111) -- click on
At 9:47 AM -0500 3/16/04, Doug Henwood wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Michael Hoover wrote:
i confess to not knowing what constitutes revolutionary socialism
Me either, and I wish someone would explain it to me. Armed takeover
of the White House and the New York Stock Exchange? Really, could
Yoshie, Doug is correct that fake questions implies that he is not
communicating in good faith.
I didn't imply it -- I stated it. Doug isn't interested in the
questions he asked, nor is he in any answers to them or thoughts
about them given by anyone here or anywhere else, based on my long
I think that you could find a less abrasive way of making your point.
Surely. I don't think it makes sense to ask questions about a
subject in which one isn't interested, and those who do so don't have
any useful thoughts about them, however wise they may be on all other
subjects, nor will they
There is nothing wrong with not being interested in revolutionary
socialism -- few in the United States are. Leftists who are not
interested in revolutionary socialism should ask the questions that
really interest them. It takes genuine interest in a subject to
come up with useful thoughts about
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Surely. I don't think it makes sense to ask questions about a
subject in which one isn't interested, and those who do so don't
have any useful thoughts about them, however wise they may be on
all other subjects, nor will they be able to hear others' opinions
about
At 7:54 AM -0800 3/16/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
It was your terms, useful, so I thought you meant something by it.
I'd like somethging useful for me, of course, or useful for
Solidarity, or useful for people on this list, or useful for people
who are trying to engage in activities that
At 8:35 AM -0800 3/16/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
What on earth is your point?
It may or may not be useful to study today the actions and thoughts
of revolutionaries of the past, but it all depends on what you intend
to get out of them, what motivates you to learn from them, for what
purpose
Devine, James wrote:
As I've said (but somehow was largely ignored[*]), RS ideals and
ideas should be used to decide which tactics and strategies to
engage in (when combined with concrete analysis).
I certainly agree with this - and with the importance of
nonreformist reforms. So at the present
Grant wrote:
I'd say that developing new forms of union organization (involving
workers themselves and broader communities than the immediate
workplace), changing U.S. labor law, raising the minimum wage,
agitating for the basics of a civilized welfare state, reducing the
role of shareholders and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/16/04 06:48AM
Over the last eight years, Nader has done more for the Green Party
than anybody else, said Howard Hawkins, a Green Party organizer
from Syracuse, N.Y. We should draft him and have a candidate who
can be in the national debates with Bush and the expected
Grant wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by the reluctance of the left in
developed countries to engage in the class struggle at the level of
relations of production.
I mean the willingness to take matters of identity politics (for
want of a better term) at face value, rather than examining their
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Suppose that you are really interested in the subject of
revolutionary socialism. What questions about it do you think
would be worth asking in the United States today, when no one --
the least of all, revolutionary socialists -- envisions any
revolution happening today
* Ralph Nader Courts Latino, Black Vote
[Click on the link The Tavis Smiley Show audio to listen to Nader.]
Feb. 24, 2004
Republicans cheered and Democrats winced when consumer advocate Ralph
Nader announced that he'd throw his hat into the 2004 Presidential
race -- this time, as an
Michael Hoover wrote:
i confess to not knowing what constitutes revolutionary socialism
Me either, and I wish someone would explain it to me. Armed takeover
of the White House and the New York Stock Exchange? Really, could
some self-identified RS clarify?
Doug
The first thing to do is to quit
S. Brian Willson, John Kerry's Obsession:
http://www.covertactionquarterly.org/kerrys.html.
--
Yoshie
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* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
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Many Arab-Americans, whose votes are concentrated in the key swing
states of Michigan, Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, will vote for
Ralph Nader -- probably in a higher proportion than they did (13.5%,
http://www.aaiusa.org/PDF/AAvoters.pdf) in 2000:
* MI, FL, OH, PA Arab American Tracking
VenezuelaFOIA.info (by the Venezuela Solidarity Committee/National
Venezuela Solidarity Network): http://www.venezuelafoia.info/.
*The New York Times, March 11, 2004
Chávez Says U.S. Is Fueling His Enemies
By JUAN FORERO
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 10 - Under United States pressure to allow
Lou says:
Chris Doss wrote:
Just as an aside, I know a guy who sells shoe polish in the Moscow
train stations who makes over four times that much.
I am not sure what point you are trying to make. Is this anecdotal
evidence meant to refute the radical critique of the
counter-revolution in the
In Columbus, Ohio, at the heart of a swing state, leaders of the
local DSA chapter are taking a hard line against John Kerry:
* Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 00:01:02 -0800
From: Rick Wilhelm
Subject: [C-JwJ] Strategy
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
**Columbus Jobs with Justice Calendar**
To post: send to
_James' Journey to Jerusalem_ (Dir. Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, 2003):
http://www.james-journey.com/.
* The New York Times, March 5, 2004
MOVIE REVIEW | 'JAMES' JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM'
For One Earnest Pilgrim, No Land of Milk and Honey
By A. O. SCOTT
It is hard these days to imagine Jerusalem
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Why can't we say that Eisner is a capitalist, whether or not he works?
We can, and I would (and do). Why do you think otherwise?
Doug
I asked because you said, by way of example, Even Michael Eisner is
a worker, at least for a little while longer. A good number
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 6:13 PM
I have it on good authority that Peter Camejo actually doesn't
intend to run for president -- he (probably along with several other
candidates currently running in the Green primaries) is a
placeholder for Ralph Nader.
The Green Party needs to run a
I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history
political economy of Haiti on my radio show next week - e.g., how
did it get to be so poor? Any ideas?
Doug
* About the history and political economy of Haiti in particular:
Alex Dupuy:
Alex Dupuy, Who Is Afraid of Democracy in Haiti? June 2003:
http://www.trinitydc.edu/academics/depts/Interdisc/International/PDF%20files/Haiti-7.final.pdf.
--
Yoshie
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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Why classify workers into working class and not working class?
You meant to say classify people into 'working class' and 'not
working class'?
Even Michael Eisner is a worker, at least for a little while longer.
So are bond traders.
Doug
Why can't we say that Eisner
The day that fool DeLong returns to this list is the day I picket
Michael Perelman's house. He is a disgusting red-baiter. If he
were in front of me now I would smack him in the mouth.
Michael Yates
It is telling that Brad De Long deliberately removed the recognizable
context from his obituary
--- Washington DC, March 1, 2004 ---
Protest against US intervention in Venezuela
Bush's Administration Supports Fraud to Overthrow Chavez
Stop US Intervention!
Respect Democracy and Popular Will in Venezuela!
Monday, March 1st, 11:30 AM
at OAS Building
17th Street Constitution Ave.
N.W.,
[lbo-talk] Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910- 2004)
John Mage jmage at panix.com
Sat Feb 28 09:12:20 PST 2004
Paul Sweezy, a man I loved, died last night.
He was a Marxist revolutionary.
john mage
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Yoshie
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* MOVIE REVIEW | 'ALILA'
No Peace in a City Teeming With Life
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: February 27, 2004
The Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai is an acerbic social critic who
likes to point fingers and pick at warts, and Alila, his acidly
comic study of life in a flimsy Tel Aviv apartment
The United Nations has said that at least 70 percent of eligible
voters should be registered for the elections to be considered
successful in Afghanistan (Steven R. Weisman/NYT, U.S. Hints of a
Delay on Afghan Elections, Monday, February 16, 2004,
http://www.iht.com/articles/129665.html).
By the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/27/04 10:32 AM
My old friend Peter Camejo was quite insistent that Bush will
steamroller over Kerry since all the big money and the media likes
what he is doing. Check out the debate between him and Norman
Solomon if you haven't done so already. It is highly entertaining,
Vote for Nader/Greens, vote against the occupations!
* February 26, 2004
The Nader Factor
Supporters among those least likely to vote, but candidacy threatens
Democratic nominee
by Jeffrey M. Jones
GALLUP NEWS SERVICE
. . . Nader Support
A September 2003 CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll found
* OVER 25% OF VOTERS ARE NOT REGISTERED DEMS OR REPS
For the first time in at least 75 years, less than three-fourths of
the nation's registered voters are registered Democratic or
Republican.
New registration data, shown on the chart on page four, shows that
the percentage of voters
I hear that Gibson's film is soft on the empire and tough on the
mob and the national elite. It's a fitting blockbuster for the New
American Century.
* 'Passion' Enjoys Blockbuster Bow
Thu Feb 26, 2004 02:54 AM ET
By Brian Fuson
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mel Gibson's The Passion of
Organized labor gave $85 million to the Democrats during the 2000
election cycle, but the Democrats still lost the White House and,
even with another $90 million of labor money in 2002, are the
minority party on Capitol Hill (Labor: Background,
* MR. RUSSERT: Civil rights: Many gay couples believe that
they should be allowed to be married. You heard Governor
Schwarzenegger say he disagrees with that. Democrat candidates will
say they're for civil unions but not gay marriage. Would Ralph Nader
support gay marriage?
MR. NADER:
** Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:16:58 -0500
From: Howie Hawkins
Subject: Re Open Letter to Ralph Nader: The Democrats Had Their Chance
The Nation's Open Letter to Ralph Nader (Feb. 16) says this is the
wrong year for [Nader] to run: 2004 is not 2000, as if The Nation
supported Nader in 2000,
* The New York Times
February 17, 2004
Ohio Town's Water at Last Runs Past a Color Line
By JAMES DAO
ZANESVILLE, Ohio - In January, a strange thing happened when people
along Coal Run Road turned on their taps. Drinking water came out.
Not the sulfur-tinged, bug-infested stuff that collected
* UNTIL WHEN?
Democrats ask the Greens to delay party building -- but for how long?
By Matt Gonzalez
For the last three years we've heard it over and over: the Green
Party spoiled the election for Al Gore and helped elect George W.
Bush. But the question that rarely gets asked is what have
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Democrats ask the Greens to delay party building -- but for how long?
By Matt Gonzalez
For the last three years we've heard it over and over: the Green
Party spoiled the election for Al Gore and helped elect George W.
Bush. But the question
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