support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states

[nefar559]

We, the undersigned, were selected by Ralph Nader to be members of his 113-person national "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee." This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues. For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election. Progressive votes for John Kerry in swing states may prove decisive in attaining this vital goal.

* David Barsamian, Author, Radio Interviewer
* Juliette Beck, California Citizens for Fair Trade
* Herbert Bernstein, Professor of Physics at Hampshire College
* Thomas Berry, Author, Dream of the Earth
* Wendell Berry, Farmer and Writer
* Norman Birnbaum, Author and Educator
* Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit Activist and Writer
* Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
* Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas
* Eric Brakken, Former Staffer, United Students Against Sweatshops
* Ira Byock, Palliative Care Physician, Author of Dying Well
* Edgar Cahn, Founder of Time Banking
* John Cavanagh, Director of Institute for Policy Studies
* Noam Chomsky, Author and Professor at MIT
* Steve Cobble, Strategist, Jackson '88, Nader '00, Kucinich '04
* Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's
* Peter Coyote, Actor and Writer
* Ronnie Cummins, Director of Organic Consumers Association
* Herman Daly, Professor at University of Maryland
* Iris DeMent, Musician/Songwriter
* Phil Donahue, Former Talk Show Host
* Mark Dowie, Journalist, Former Editor/Publisher of Mother Jones
* Barbara Dudley, Former President, Greenpeace and National Lawyers Guild
* Ronnie Dugger, Co-founder of Alliance for Democracy
* Troy Duster, Professor at New York University
* Barbara Ehrenreich, Political Essayist and Social Critic
* Richard Falk, Center of International Studies, Princeton University
* Jim Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
* Rebecca Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
* Doris (Granny D) Haddock, Senate Candidate, Reform Activist
* Paul Hawken, Author, Economist
* Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network and Director of Sustainability, City of Oakland
* Jim Hightower, Author and Commentator
* Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
* David Kairys, Law Professor at Temple University and Author
* Ynestra King, Ecofeminist Writer/Activist
* John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders
* Philip M. Klasky, Co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
* David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World
* Frances Korten, Director of Positive Futures Network
* Saul Landau, California State Polytechnic University
* Rabbi Michael Lerner, The Tikkun Community
* Theodore Lowi, Political Scientist, Author
* Howard Lyman, Former Rancher, Vegetarian Activist
* Joanna Macy, Author and Scholar
* Jerry Mander, President of International Forum on Globalization
* Manning Marable, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia
* Redwood Mary, Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
* Robert McChesney, Professor, University of Illinois
* Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, University of California-Berkeley
* Peter Montague, Environmental Research Foundation
* Gus Newport, Former Mayor of Berkeley, California
* Ruth Ozeki, Novelist
* Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
* Bonnie Raitt, Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter
* Sheldon Rampton, Co-author of Banana Republicans
* Marcus Raskin, Author
* Tim Robbins
* Vicki Robin, New Road Map Foundation
* Susan Sarandon, Actor and Activist
* John Schaeffer, Founder of Real Goods Trading Company
* Michelle Shocked, Musician
* John Stauber, Co-author of Banana Republicans
* Andrew Strauss, Professor at Widener University School of Law
* Charlotte Talberth, Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
* Meredith Tax, Writer and Human Rights Activist
* Studs Terkel, Author, Oral Historian
* Tom Tomorrow, Cartoonist
* Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine
* Eddie Vedder, Musician, Pearl Jam
* Harvey Wasserman, Author of Harvey Wasserman's History of the US
* Cornel West, Professor, Author of Democracy Matters
* Sheldon Wolin, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
* Howard Zinn, Historian and Author

Other prominent Nader 2000 supporters endorsing this statement:

* Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
* Jackson Browne
* Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-founder
* Bob Harris, Author
* Thom Hartmann, Author and Radio Talk Show Host
* Hazel Henderson, Economist and Author
* Francis Moore Lappé, author
* Norman Solomon, Columnist

Signers endorse this statement as individuals, not as representatives of any group. A frequently updated list of swing states is posted at www.swing04.com.


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[Spitz]

HAHAH at * Tim Robbins and * Susan Sarandon, they shall never rest.

im not sure where i stand on this. on one hand im far more closer allinged with naders views. and 2 elections in a row that the demos lose because nader might turn their pussy asses around and force them to be more openly liberal insteed to always tryin to move to the middle to appear as decaf consertives so they can get elected.

on the other hand 4 more years of bush will be bad for me personally.

i think no matter what its a lose lose for consertives.

if kerry wins they lose.

if bush wins hes inherting major fuckin problems he caused. and i dont think his drunk till age 40 ass can dig us out of it. he could very well be the death of the extream consertive party.

only time will tell

 

[2-0-Sixx]

 

[TOKZTLI]

LOL @ Jerry Mander

 

[SoCal187um]

Bush's electoral votes are pretty much set in stone, and he can win by picking up a few swing states. Kerry needs them all to win. Unfortunately, it looks like we're looking at 4 more years no matter what.

What's amazing is that Bush is going to win Florida again. With the fucking insanity last election, I'd never have imagined all the angry people from last time around letting that happen again - but it's going to happen.

 

[2-0-Sixx]

The job of defeating the Bush agenda can’t be left to an unaccountable Democrat, who will decide which Republican policy to overturn, and which to keep. We cannot support another Democrat who spouts the minimum of populist rhetoric necessary to get elected, and then proceeds to put through policies subservient to big business at home and abroad. Time after time, movements have put their faith in the Democratic Party as the only "realistic" alternative, only to find that their concerns have been ignored. We need to organize that struggle from below, because, in the words of the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass, "without struggle there is no progress." And in the process, we can build an alternative to a political system where the only real choices come down to different versions of the status quo.

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There’s hardly anything more important that people can learn than the fact that the really critical thing isn’t who is sitting in the White House, but who is sitting in–in the streets, in the cafeterias, in the halls of government, in the factories. Who is protesting, who is occupying offices and demonstrating–those are the things that determine what happens.
If the Clinton-Gore record suddenly looks rosier compared to the crimes of the Neanderthals occupying the White House now, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Clinton stands out in many ways as more conservative than the presidents who came before him–Republicans included. So, for example, Richard Nixon launched more anti-discrimination and affirmative action programs than Clinton [don't forget it was clinton who dismantled welfare]. Obviously, that’s not because Nixon was more liberal on civil rights–on the contrary, he was a miserable right-winger. But Nixon was under pressure to act from the mass social movements of the 1960s and early 1970s. Clinton didn’t face these, in part, because organized labor and mainstream liberal groups fell in line behind the White House during the 1990s on the reasoning that the Democrats were the lesser evil and that we all should give Bill a chance.