A full house of three thousand people of all ages paid $15 each to see former Green Party Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader in Boston and to hear him speak on the important issues spearheaded by the Green Party and foolishly ignored by the Demopublicans and Republicrats.Event Sponsored by: Democracy Rising .org
Master of Ceremonies: Boston political Satirist Barry Crimmins
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...and to end the two party blocade that prevents progress. As we fight over left and right, we are failing to move forward. The dems and Repubs will offer their lame short term solutions to the crises they themselves have manufactured, and seeing no hope in third partiy vibility, we tend to play suvker every time, voting not for our desires and beliefs, but for the lesser of two evils. Major points from speakers included american foreign policy tyranny and hypocrisy, the corporate hijacking of our government, and the international, corporate, world takeover (neoliberalism) which the ultra-rich are engineering despite massive worldwide grassroots cross-border uprisings. From Seattle, to Quebec to Prague, people are being excluded from the trade talks, misrepresented by the corporate media, and occasionally, brutalized by police. (For photos of the Quebec City non-riots, see this FZ Photo Report!)
Recount... It's final, Bush is not a President. Read carefully, for the corporate media 'buried the lead' by clever writing that mislead the majority of readers. Gore won Florida, and therefore the election.
Jim Crow stole the presidential election was stolen through Brother Jeb's Florida's institutionalized racism machine. A great new movie is near release that details the criminal techniques used by Baby Bush's brother's henchmen to take over the government. he's an international wheeler dealer with dirty Nazi money ties. Bush used well-placed connections and illegal means to steal the presidential office as the next step in his agenda. His new oil war is the next step. He has used this as an excuse to strengthen his battle against American Democracy. This puppet-cretin promised us a war as he ran for office, and now he's delivering. As he ran, the Texas Bar Association issued a scathing criticism of the Texas death penalty system, condemning it as racist and negligent, citing defending attorneys sleeping through court and so on. Baby Bush responded to these findings with his favorite verbal weapon...smug indignation. He's into racist killing, and he's really, really stupid. Is this the leader we need? Well, maybe it's the best we can do, since we know what happened to John Kennedy, right? Warren Comission...Magic Bullet!
Reminder... "Poppy" Bush, who brought you the first installment on this oil war is a former head of the CIA, the nice folks who created Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden. Iran-Contra-Gate, Ollie North hiding his dirty secrets. Only by falsely packaging the "Gulf War" as a discreet entity can victory be claimed. In reality, the WTC attack was the payback for what we did to iraq, quite likely sparked by our election of a second Bush. Well, G.H.W.B. was right in saying "This will not be another Vietnam".
U.S. taxes are the highest in the history of the world. These are our hard-earned resources going to pampered corporate executives, secret assassins and spies to subvert democratic movements such as the 1960's Civil Rights groups invaded by FBI, not as investigators, but as Provocateurs. (for more info, search for "COINTELPRO") We have collectively created the Superpower that's gone all Frankenstein-like, and we have the responsibility of getting our government under control. or we'll continue to suffer the consequences. We can't claim democracy if we have no control! And we can't avoid responsibility if we do have a functioning democracy. If the corporations run the government, it's called "corpocracy." What the hell are we paying for, folks?
Whether Nader is a savior to deliver us from this corruption remains to be seen. My angle is that he offers an agenda that looks forward by reducing oil dependancy and restoring democracy through campaign reform. It is generally agreed that we allow our representatives to sell their votes, an act which is clearly illegal, and perhaps treasonous. Campaign reform is essential to ending the cycle of entitlement through incumbency.
Reports from Chuck and Martin are completely different from the shit spewed by the corporate media. They are dedicated volunteers who seek to inform folks on issues and facts that do not necessarily boost corporate interests, events that the money media self interestedly ignore in violation of their FCC licenses. Some day we may reclaim the hijacked broadcast bandwidth that is supposed to be regulated by the government in the public interest. Legally, the broadcast media's first ammendment rights are completely different from a newspaper, where the publisher actually owns the medium.Once upon a time broadcasters were legally required to provide balanced time to candidates? Whatever happened to change that? (I know, but I'll let you figure it out.) How can Happy Daze reruns and beer ads be more relevant to the public interest that what mr. Nader would have to say? How is it that Ralph Nader was actually removed from the corporately sponsored Bush-Gore debate when he entered, ticket in hand... as a spectator?
Chuck reports for Pacifica in Exile and coproduces No Censorship Radio with Linda Pinkow on Fridays at 6:30 p.m. on 88.1 FM, in Boston. Martin documents events and sells audio cassettes and CD's.
How many children will have the opportunity to learn this, as money is stolen from schools to build prisons? How much profit from privatized prisons will buy politicians' votes for "tough on crime" bills to break America's already shameful record as the world's number one incarcerator of it's own citizens? Brothers and sisters, It's up to you and me.
Americans for Unity is working to create The U.S Peace Department by forming Peace Councils of women, men, and youth from all races, facilitated by council concensus. "We call for the Peace Department to be funded by one tenth of the military budget." -Contact: Mareba Jos, Watertown, Mass at 617-744-1015
Jill Stein is a different kind of candidate who's views belong in the public debate.The Massachusetts Clean Elections bill, supported by a clear majority of Massachusetts Voters, was passed only by virtue of dilligent citizen activism, and the dirty State House thugs have effectively neutered the law by refusing funding. <needs clean elections link, got one? drop me a line>
Goodman was nearly killed in a mass murder. She spoke eloquently on U.S.foreign policy crimes and hypocrisy. She was saved only by the word "American," the same adjective that described the guns used in the slaughter of unarmed civilians she was documenting. Democracy Now Reporter Amy Goodman
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Pacifica's once cutting-edge radio news programming was seized by corporsate goons. The invaders, who's lives and careers are in complete opposition to the Pacifica Charter, gutted the programming, censored ,and and locked out reporters. Learn about the Pacifica sabotage and the Striking Reporters' brave work as they continue to report according to the Pacifica charter the corporate invaders shredded!For more on the strike and for great news visit...
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World Famous Activist "Granny D" (Doris Haddock) appeared on stage hunting for "King" Tom Finnneran. Finneran, the enemy of campaign reformers and the shame of Massachusetts politics, has constructed a political machine intended to install him permanently as House Speaker. He has arrogantly blocked the (nonbinding) Clean Elections Referendum passed by the People of Massachusetts at every opportunity, recently using the "war" as an excuse.For more on Finneran and 'his' state government, see this report of how the State House thugs treat a family magazine Reporter (That very day I happened to meet two other reporters kicked out of our corrupt State House simply for not being corporate enough.) A.C.L.U. has a file on this incident, but I hate litigation and prefer to attack this through media activism. I'm just tellin' ya, 'cause I'm your friend, okay?
"While we are all shocked by the loss of lives on September 11, an event that touched everyone, we must not allow emotion to cloud our thinking." We should not be making war on another country, regardless of the amount of food we drop or the number of people killed." We should join in an alliance with other nations to investigate...who was responsible. We should not make war on the people of Afghanistan." -Chuck Turner
The ubuquitous Mr. Turner, a Boston City Council member, appears everywhere there's bullpoop to expose, from war hysteria in the council to prison brutality at Walpole, he's on the scene. Turner stood alone against a bill that grants jingoistic blank-check approval to the potentially irretractible advancement of the Bush oil war agenda being shoved up our collective spines in the name of "Anti-Terrorism. The bill was sponsored by Jim Kelly. Considered by many to be a political racist, Kelly helped to exclude gay taxpayers from the Boston Saint Patrick's Day Parade.turner has a long history as an Activist and like Representative Barbara Lee, he has received a raft of threats since his brave stand against mindless compliance and surrender of democracy in the name of King George II's dirty oil war.
This bottled water waited billions of years underground...yet it expires in a few weeks!
Smith's performance of The People have the Power was inspirational to the thousands who promised to work against the DemoPublican Deadlock and advance the Green Party's agenda of sanity, survival and democracy. Patti Smith
Since battling Detroit, Ralph Nader has become a legendary corporate giant slayer. Is it any wonder why the corporate media won't give him (or us) a break?Photos of a big Boston protest when Nader was barred from the staged and corporately sponsored televised 'debate' about nothing. Includes cops with and without donuts...and a police horse drops dead!
Mr Nader spoke enthusiastically and eloquently about many of the probelms we face today, most of which are smokescreened by the mainstream money media who have $take$ in the issues they report 9or ignore). His vision of a green economy is based, among other concepts, on clean, renewable energy, not an oil-war driven corpocratic pseudo-democracy.
Breakdown of our Mainstream American Media
At a time when we need it most, American Journalism has sunken to an all time low. Loss of the 'Wall' between Advertising and Programming in the News Room brings us deceptive, misdirectional, manipulative disinformation directly controlled by Capital (cash) Interests.Money Media have reduced themselves to selling every element of their influence, and have therefore killed the golden goose of credibility. Product Placement takes money to show branded cigarettes, News 'Puff Pieces' kiss sponsor butt, News Directors are censored from criticising Sponsors, many of whom are car dealerships. All of America has been recruited to sell big cars, but there's no room to drive them!
Do we need more freakin' cars? No, but corporations 'need' to sell them, and they make 'em big and hungry so we increase our dependancy on (mostly foreign) oil. Oil interests we 'defend' with the world's most powerful (and oil dependant) military. The Petroleum Element
Everything around us is oil-dependant. Petroleum has made us so powerful that we can go make war half way around the world and manipulate other countries through the C.I.A. to get our next fix. When the citizens over there get wise and stand up to their sellout puppet governments, heads roll. American involvement and policy in the Middle East is, and always has been, about oil.
Regardless of the morality of installing friendly regimes who sell us the Middle East's oil, the blind promotion of a Petroleum Based Culture is suicidal in the undeniable face of Global Warming, depleted, nonrenewable resources, and the moral reality that we have no right to this foreign oil simply because we manage to obtain it.
A Permanent Renewable Energy Infrastructure is what we must begin immediately to develop. How can we wait any longer? We need to use what petroluem we can justify burning to create this Renewable Energy Infrastructure, but since this inconveniences the oil companies, the corporate media illegally suppress these facts. (Remember their obligation to inform in the publisc interest.) Renewable Energy: Against the Corporate Interests
the Florida Recount deception: Americans have been successfully led to conclude incorrectly that Gore lost Florida, while all analysis of the question concludes Gore, and the American people were robbed. (onthemedia.org, report for 11/18/2001) Jim Crow Elected Bush-Baby
Danny Schechter (The News Dissector) has produced an excellent movie on the very Real and very Racist Jim Crow style Florida Election Theft, and is no doubt now re-editing to dissect the deceptive spin corporate mass media's put on their recount.
Nader's contribution to American Politics, other than calling out the Democratic Party for their shameful self-republicanization, is to advange Campaign Fnance Reform and the aggressive promotion of the idea that when a two party system becomes just Coke and Pepsi playing off one another, the way forward is to abandon those deadwood ways, to shake up the system, to create a new party that will set our goals on the platform and move them forward. Campaign Reform
LINKS: Campaign Finance Reform Poet: granny D.com | Money Trails: opensecrets.org. | Anti Corporate-Rule: Alliance for democracy.org
Nader Supporters are accused of helping to elect George W. Bush, I say in reply, that those who voted for Al Gore are the whiners who prevented one of the America's few great men from achieving the Executive Office. How dare they throw their votes to that other toadie of the oil companies!
To Bush Voters, I might say that Your candidate, the moron son of a former President and Head of the Secret Police, with membership in racist secret societies, lost the election, and that he stole the High Office using the racist mechanisms of his brother's fairly and squarely bought Governorship, that he's descended from a long line of international criminals, and that anyone who'd vote for George W. Bush is either a weak-minded junior league power freak who will never be in the inner circle, or a big time power freak who already is, or extremely gullible.
Bush virtually promised in his election babble to bring us to war. How could the cast of characters be any different than the clowns who brought us Iran Contra Gate? remember how those Iranian-held Hostages returned the minute Reagan was in office? Because Reagan paid for it. Another election fairly and squarely purchased.
Is it possible...that George W. Bush is the center of an international effort of the world's richest men, including the IMF and World Bank, to set people against each other? Can people like that elevate themselves by degrading humanity?
...Stay tuned and find out!
