On Saturday, August 5, 2000 at 1:00:00 PM UTC+6, Connie Mack wrote:
> 5 Aug 2000 23:02:42 GMT
> It's hard for me to believe that the next president of the United
> States will be George W. Bush or Al Gore. Both remind me of
> Hollywood movies that have been focus-grouped to death: they
> push all the appropriate buttons, but have zero original vision.
> Both stand for the same thing: corporate-driven business as usual.
> There must be some way outta here.
> Ralph Nader is no joker or thief. I think he and the Greens could
> give Al & George a good run for their money. At 65, Nader isn't
> running as fast as he used to, and the Green Party doesn't exactly
> have its platform figured out, but I think they have what it takes to
> inject a dose of radical democracy into the race. Unlike the two
> Tweedles, Nader is real, he stands for decency and common
> sense and he still commands a lot of respect in progressive and
> activist circles. And hidden behind the rainbow coalition of lefties,
> eco-feminists and crazies, the Green Party does have some great
> ideas. It's the only party that stands for the Tobin Tax, true cost
> markets, media reform and putting corporations in their place.
> In October, with a fired-up Nader hurling intelligent sound bites 
> into the presidential debates, the whole game show might actually be
> worth watching. The alternative is the most sophomoric
> presidential race in American history . . . and the lowest voter
> turnout ever.
> I'm putting a GO GREEN - VOTE NADER graphic at the end of all
> my emails from now on. I'm betting that, between now and November, 
> the American people will wake up to the fact that their sacred 
> democratic experiment has now degenerated into a choice between a 
> corporate-sponsored Republican and a corporate-sponsored Democrat.
> In these heady post-WTO days, a sudden, massive protest vote
> against Al & George is entirely possible and Nader would be the
> most apparent heir. With perhaps less than 25 percent of the
> people voting, an inspired Nader campaign could grab a surprising
> share of the action. And even if he does not come close to
> winning, at least imagine how his campaign might pull together
> some of the fired-up, post-WTO forces and lay the groundwork for
> something really visionary in 2004.
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> Your elected representative,
> 
> Connie Mack <con...@mack.senate.gov>
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> What it Means to be Green
> "At the root of all Green political action is nonviolence, starting 
> with how we live our lives, taking small, unilateral steps toward 
> peace in everything we do. Green politics requires us to be both
> tender and subversive. Affirming tenderness as a political value is 
> already subversive. In Green politics, we practice tenderness in 
> relations with others; in caring for ideas, art, language, and
> culture; and in cherishing and protecting the Earth. To think Green
> is to build solidarity with those working for social justice and human
> rights everywhere, not bound by ideologies."
> -Petra Kelly
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