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Do You REALLY want "Change"?
"Change". That is the big keyword of this years presidential election. Whether you
are a Republican or a Democrat, everyone can agree that things in this country aren't
going well. Most have listened to the great orator Barack Obama and have been
inspired enough to get up and vote in the Democratic Primaries to vote for "Change".
Change that they see in him. Not only because he is a great speaker, but I think mostly
because he doesn't seem to be a lifelong politician. People are sick of politicians and
when you bring them up in conversation, the subject leaves a dirty taste in peoples
mouths.
But, when elected to the Oval Office (and unless there is further funny business with our
election process, I believe he will be) how much change can he actually bring to our
country? Change that the average citizen can feel in their everyday lives? He is, in fact,
part of the two major political parties here in the US that are equally funded by all of the
huge multi-national corporations. The same multi-national corporations that have made
billions of dollars off of war and destruction, and have fought for years to end labor
unions and keep wages down here in the US by exploiting illegal immigrants, or just
flat-out moving their operations off-shore where they can pay pennies a day to third world
workforces.
I have a lot of respect for Barack Obama for not accepting special interest money to fund
his campaign up to this point, but once he wins the nomination, that special interest
money will flood the bank accounts of the Democratic National Committee.
On the other hand there is the Republican nominee John McCain, who will add four more
years of failed Republican policies. Unless there is mass election fraud committed by
the corporations who count our votes, we can pretty much forget about him. Grampa
McCain thinks all of our countries problems can be fixed with more tax-cuts for the rich
and a hundred more years in Iraq!
Both of the Democratic front-runners promise to bring our troops home or redistribute
them to other parts of the world (redeployment), but do they mean it? I attended the rally
and march against the illegal occupation of Iraq (going on it's fifth year) and I didn't see
one banner or booth from the DNC. Plenty of Democratic members, but no endorsement
by the leadership. How can they say they want the occupation to end, but are no-shows
when it comes to grassroots protest? How can they promise an end to the mess in the
Iraq, but continue to accept money from the same multi-national corporations who have
made billions of dollars off of it?
While marching with the antiwar protesters on Saturday, I did see one political party who
with banners and a booth at the rally, was proud to take a stand for Peace and true
"Change" through grassroots action. "The Peace Party" is one of their nicknames. The
only party who actually practices what it preaches is not one of the major two parties at
all. It's the Green Party.
Now, I realize the corporate media has done a great disservice to our electoral process
by blaming what happened in 2000 on Ralph Nader and the Green Party, instead of
focusing on the fact that Bush was put into office by the Supreme Court, but the Green
Party leadership has been working hard for decades to push forward actual change that
benefits not only the average citizen, but the world that we call home. Here in New
Mexico we now have paper ballots in our elections due mostly to the hard work by Green
Party members!
I know that we are a more than a few presidential elections away from electing a Green
Party president of the United States, but if everyone took the time to actually read the
Green Party platform ( http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/platformTOC.html ) you would
see that they stand for everything that Americans are rushing to the polls to vote for in
Barack Obama.
I'm not saying telling everyone to vote for the Green Party presidential nominee this year,
but what kind of point would we be making to the current system if everyone who actually
wanted "change" went out and CHANGED their voting registration to GREEN? Or
elected Green Party candidates to local offices? Think we would get their attention? You
must remember that only 3% of the population of the colonies participated in the
Revolutionary War of 1776, and that they too wanted change. They like us, no longer
wanted to be part of the empire. The founders of this country wanted a government that
was run by the people, not by the multi-national corporation of the time the "East India
Tea Company".
My question for my fellow Americans is: Who's coming with me?
Please visit [ http://www.gp.org/index.php ] for more information about electing local
Green Party members to city, county and state offices.
-Thomas P.
www.bringdanoise.com
"Change". That is the big keyword of this years presidential election. Whether you
are a Republican or a Democrat, everyone can agree that things in this country aren't
going well. Most have listened to the great orator Barack Obama and have been
inspired enough to get up and vote in the Democratic Primaries to vote for "Change".
Change that they see in him. Not only because he is a great speaker, but I think mostly
because he doesn't seem to be a lifelong politician. People are sick of politicians and
when you bring them up in conversation, the subject leaves a dirty taste in peoples
mouths.
But, when elected to the Oval Office (and unless there is further funny business with our
election process, I believe he will be) how much change can he actually bring to our
country? Change that the average citizen can feel in their everyday lives? He is, in fact,
part of the two major political parties here in the US that are equally funded by all of the
huge multi-national corporations. The same multi-national corporations that have made
billions of dollars off of war and destruction, and have fought for years to end labor
unions and keep wages down here in the US by exploiting illegal immigrants, or just
flat-out moving their operations off-shore where they can pay pennies a day to third world
workforces.
I have a lot of respect for Barack Obama for not accepting special interest money to fund
his campaign up to this point, but once he wins the nomination, that special interest
money will flood the bank accounts of the Democratic National Committee.
On the other hand there is the Republican nominee John McCain, who will add four more
years of failed Republican policies. Unless there is mass election fraud committed by
the corporations who count our votes, we can pretty much forget about him. Grampa
McCain thinks all of our countries problems can be fixed with more tax-cuts for the rich
and a hundred more years in Iraq!
Both of the Democratic front-runners promise to bring our troops home or redistribute
them to other parts of the world (redeployment), but do they mean it? I attended the rally
and march against the illegal occupation of Iraq (going on it's fifth year) and I didn't see
one banner or booth from the DNC. Plenty of Democratic members, but no endorsement
by the leadership. How can they say they want the occupation to end, but are no-shows
when it comes to grassroots protest? How can they promise an end to the mess in the
Iraq, but continue to accept money from the same multi-national corporations who have
made billions of dollars off of it?
While marching with the antiwar protesters on Saturday, I did see one political party who
with banners and a booth at the rally, was proud to take a stand for Peace and true
"Change" through grassroots action. "The Peace Party" is one of their nicknames. The
only party who actually practices what it preaches is not one of the major two parties at
all. It's the Green Party.
Now, I realize the corporate media has done a great disservice to our electoral process
by blaming what happened in 2000 on Ralph Nader and the Green Party, instead of
focusing on the fact that Bush was put into office by the Supreme Court, but the Green
Party leadership has been working hard for decades to push forward actual change that
benefits not only the average citizen, but the world that we call home. Here in New
Mexico we now have paper ballots in our elections due mostly to the hard work by Green
Party members!
I know that we are a more than a few presidential elections away from electing a Green
Party president of the United States, but if everyone took the time to actually read the
Green Party platform ( http://www.gp.org/platform/2004/platformTOC.html ) you would
see that they stand for everything that Americans are rushing to the polls to vote for in
Barack Obama.
I'm not saying telling everyone to vote for the Green Party presidential nominee this year,
but what kind of point would we be making to the current system if everyone who actually
wanted "change" went out and CHANGED their voting registration to GREEN? Or
elected Green Party candidates to local offices? Think we would get their attention? You
must remember that only 3% of the population of the colonies participated in the
Revolutionary War of 1776, and that they too wanted change. They like us, no longer
wanted to be part of the empire. The founders of this country wanted a government that
was run by the people, not by the multi-national corporation of the time the "East India
Tea Company".
My question for my fellow Americans is: Who's coming with me?
Please visit [ http://www.gp.org/index.php ] for more information about electing local
Green Party members to city, county and state offices.
-Thomas P.
www.bringdanoise.com
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4/10/08 Yet another case for impeachment
of all of them....
of all of them....
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4/14/08 Artist's Comments
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) [link] was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual
convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service
people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.
From its inception, IVAW has called for:
- Immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq;
- Reparations for the human and structural damages Iraq has suffered, and stopping the corporate pillaging of
Iraq so that their people can control their own lives and future and
- Full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other supports for returning servicemen and
women.
Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) [link] was founded by Iraq war veterans in July 2004 at the annual
convention of Veterans for Peace (VFP) in Boston to give a voice to the large number of active duty service
people and veterans who are against this war, but are under various pressures to remain silent.
From its inception, IVAW has called for:
- Immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq;
- Reparations for the human and structural damages Iraq has suffered, and stopping the corporate pillaging of
Iraq so that their people can control their own lives and future and
- Full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other supports for returning servicemen and
women.