tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78813992009-02-21T09:06:56.064-08:00A forum for Students who support Ralph Nader in the 2004 Election. Feel free to comment & post anything relevant to the campaign. Please no anti-Nader remarks. Please respect our right to vote. This blog is not officially endorsed by the Nader/Camejo campaign.JackFate04http://www.blogger.com/profile/09774265308836422624noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7881399.post-1101235219918766222004-11-23T10:39:00.000-08:002004-11-23T10:40:19.916-08:00

I wrote this in a rush so I could get it out before the election. While the writing was done in haste the reasoning behind it wasn't. Hopefully the inevitable grammatical errors, jumbled structure and inelegant phrasing will be outweighed by the cogency of the underlying arguments. Please forward it people who might get something out of it. Preferably cut and paste and add the names again so

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Students For Nader received this message this morning from one of our frequent contributors. Halloween question: What's scarier than four more years of Bush? Election Day answer: Four years of "Kerry." "Regardless of whether Bush or Kerry wins, the occupation of Iraq will continue, our addiction to climate-wrecking fossil fuels will continue, and 45 million Americans will continue to lack

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Nader to Democrats: "It's not over" By Beverley Wang, Associated Press Writer | October 30, 2004 MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader Saturday warned Democrats to expect legal action over tactics he called "disgraceful" and "fascistic." Stay tuned. It's not over," he said. Democrats have tried to keep Nader off the ballot in several states, including New

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The Great Delusion Kerrycrats and the War By ALEXANDER COCKBURN I asked one usually radical friend of mine, now a Kerrycrat, how she could support a fellow who pledges a "better", wider war in Iraq and then a march on Teheran. "Oh" she said airily, "you can't believe anything a candidate will say." From where we sit, here at mission control, CounterPunch hq, (currently a facility known as the

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Double Standards: Bill Clinton and the “Anybody But Bush” Movement by Joe Licentia Infoshop News | http://www.infoshop.org/inews If the democrats take power this November they will probably continue the same policies as Bush. We know this because Clinton did basically the same thing when he was in office. To think otherwise is to ignore history and the democrat's records. The "Anybody but

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So far, roughly 150 billion dollars have been spent on the Iraq War, with a lot more to be spent this year. That averages out to about 500 dollars per American Citizen. While most citizens did not receive as much in tax cuts, they have had 500 dollars each looted from them to spend on a war with a nation that was never a threat to us. Each citizen, you could say, is owed 500 dollars by the

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1. Which Candidate Believes We Must Win In Iraq before We Can Exit Iraq? A. George Bush. B. John Kerry. C. All of the Above. 2. Which candidate has define what is meant by "victory" in reference to Iraq? A. George Bush. B. John Kerry. C. None of the Above. 3. Which candidates have supported NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND? A. George Bush. B. John Kerry. C. All of the Above. 4. Which

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I Wasn't Going to Vote for Nader ... Until They Told Me I Couldn't If Bush Wins, Blame Me By DAVID VEST Originally published October 20th, 2004 at www.counterpunch.org In Oregon, we all vote by mail, and I have just cast my ballot in the November 2 election. At least, I think I voted. I'm not sure, because the candidate I wanted for president wasn't on the ballot. There was a space for

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This update from www.voteNader.org should interest students who have been ammused by Michael Moore's recent ramblings. Nader Challenges Michael Moore to a Debate Who Should the Anti-War Movement Vote for in 2004? Ralph Nader today challenged film-maker Michael Moore to debate the question of which Presidential candidate the anti-war movement should support in November. Nader proposes that the

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As students increasingly do not vote and do not participate in government, it is no surprise that we will be ignored at tonight's presidential debate. Here are some issues students should demand be adressed in this election: -The Draft. Although Republicans and George W. Bush continue to assure us they will use only volunteers, the American people continue to question what they mean by "

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The Magnitude of the Failure is Stunning America Will Disappoint the World, Again By ADAM FEDERMAN America in November will disappoint the world. We will elect either a war criminal or one of the lawmakers who gave him the power to wage such an unlawful war (i.e. an accomplice). What we now know (and what was assumed by many at the time) about the intelligence employed to justify war in Iraq is

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Tigers Against Nader, Pussycats Against Bush. How Democrats Fight Tigers Against Nader, Pussycats Against Bush By DAVE LINDORFF Many frustrated progressive Democrats have been bemoaning the lack of aggressiveness of the Democratic Party and its presidential standard bearer John Kerry in this campaign. While Republicans in Florida and Michigan work to bar or scare off black voters, and smear

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Young, progressive voters who still believe they have some obligation to support Kerry/Edwards, even despite their pro-war, pro-patriot act, anti-democracy stances, may find this article from the Muslims for Nader/Camejo blog of interest... The "anybody but bush, or nobody but kerry" candidate is in trouble, the polls are showing he is behind Bush (in more ways than one :-)) - some progressives

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It certainly pays to be a corporate criminal these days—so many different ways to inflict misery and suffering on the public at large, while at the same time serving your craven lust for the accumulation of wealth! Sure, you're a criminal, but it's not as if the Department of Justice is breathing down your neck. Luckily for you, the FBI doesn't take the trouble to collect data on "suite" crime

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Twelvers are groups of citizens working to get this country back on track. Corporate interests drive the Republican and Democratic parties, not the interests of the people. To get the country back on the right road, the people have to take the wheel. Within every community there are active citizens, willing to work for better government. This program brings them together and shifts the power back

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A Message to Young Voters (and Non-Voters) "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) In this year's presidential race, it seems the American voting public has been infected by a deep and malignant cynicism. Voters are not making their choices based on what the candidate's

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While it is easy to believe that the rich CEO's of major companies like Coke-a-Cola are not participating in immoral, inhumane acts such as murder, a closer look at the facts will devastate confidence in the American Corporation. Young people, especially, need to be concerned about the injustices waged by giant American businesses. Killer Coke's Casualties Listed below are union leaders at

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News Analysis, by Ann Bassette, I can’t really imagine myself holding onto some fat gun, ready and waiting to shoot and kill for a war that I know barely anything about. I sit in class and try to picture the type of scenarios I could be in if I were ever to be drafted – huddled in a tent wearing desert camouflage, hearing mortar blasts outside. I try to see my friends in the same situations and

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Yesterday, I had a brief chance to meet with Ralph Nader and ask him a few questions. These are issues ignored by Bush and Kerry. Q. Should college tuition be free? A. Yes, that should be the goal: to make state college free to all Americans. To do this we have to do something about the bloated military budget. 140 Billion dollars for a missile program that this country's leading

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TALLAHASSEE - After the Florida election fiasco of 2000, the most obscure parts of state election law keep attracting attention. The latest effort to disqualify Ralph Nader as a presidential candidate in Florida has led to renewed scrutiny of papers filed by other candidates - including President Bush. State law sets a Sept. 1 deadline for the governor to certify a list of presidential electors

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Beyond Democrats and Republicans Third Party Blues By SHARON SMITH Since 1856, every U.S. president has been the candidate of either the Democratic or Republican Party. Despite their differences, these two parties share a fundamental stake in promoting the interests of big business and the economic, political and military dominance of the U.S. over the rest of the world. Together, the Democrats

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by Mark Dunlea (Mark Dunlea is the author of Madame President: The Unauthorized Biography of the First Green President, which imagines what would have happened if a Green was president on 9/11. http://nys.greens.org/rachel) I drove to New York City for a friend's wedding the Saturday after September 11. I stared in disbelief at the smoke rising from the ashes of the World Trade Center as I

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For those missed Ralph Nader's recently posted question for Bush, here it is again: Mr. President: you have based your demand on Congress to restrict the rights of wrongfully injured Americans to have their full day in court on two assertions: 1. Frivolous law suits 2. Good doctors leaving their practices because of these frivolous law suits Please give us your evidence regarding the extent of

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Kerry would keep 95% of the Patriot Act, and stregnthen the rest! The Patriot Act is considered by civil rights groups a violation of the US constitution. But the Patriot Act did not begin with Bush/Ashcroft, infact the groundwork was laid by the Democratic administration of Bill Clinton - this was the 1996 antiterrorism bill that included the secret evidence rule. Kerry not only voted for the

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Let us quote you a passage from an email we received this morning, written by Mary Beth Cahill, John Kerry’s campaign manager. “…make no mistake, George Bush is a skilled debater. In fact, he has never lost a debate in his entire political career.” Wow. Apparently the Democrats are engaging in a novel debate strategy, which is to prepare their supporters for the eventuality that John Kerry is

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