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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.tools -> Re: Green Party receives Senate endorsement.
I don't think you'll find many people here supporting anything green, matey.
Cheers,
Boof
AFP / Marc Braibant <C-afp_at_clari.net> wrote in message
news:onqaDFCAWvdqxl_at_wanadoo.fr...
> 25 Aug 2000 00:13:22 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.
>
> Download the graphics and help launch an email pyramid scheme
> to dump the Tweedles! Two formats are available, a magazine
> sticker (17K) or a Banner ad (5K):
>
> Sticker ... http://adbusters.org/campaigns/election/sticker.html
> Banner .... http://adbusters.org/campaigns/election/banner.html
>
>
> Join with me and Go Green,
>
> C-afp_at_clari.net (AFP / Marc Braibant)
>
> phones are open to receive your calls: 1-408-929-7601
>
>
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> Go Green Vote Nader .... http://www.greens.org/
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>
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