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Announcement :: Elections & Legislation
PLEASE HELP Dennis Kucinich in Iowa Current rating: 0
15 Jan 2004
To all Illinoisans, Join the REAL grassroots revolution by volunteering to help Dennis in Iowa. You will get an ALL EXPENSE PAID trip to Cedar Rapids and Waterlou, including food, lodging, and transportation in exchange for your help Jan 17th thru 19th. Dennis Kucinich not only takes NO corporate money (and never has) he includes a proposal to dismantle corporate media in his platform of issues. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Dennis has always run a grassroots campaign. Despite this he has won time and again in heavily Republican districts when all the pundits told him it couldn't be done. Not surprisingly, a grassroots campaign needs grassroots help this weekend.
The Kucinich campaign has issued a special plea for Illinois volunteers to help out in Cedar Rapids and Waterlou Iowa this weekend (January 17th thru 19th). All expenses (food, Lodging, transportation) will be paid for!!! There will be a special bus sent from Cleveland, Ohio and it will arrive in Aurora, Illinois at the Jewell on Rte 31, four blocks south of Interstate 88 at 3:30 AM. You can leave your cars in the parking lot.

If you can go PLEASE call Leah at the national headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio at 1-866-413-3664 for more info and to reserve your seat and accomodations!

BTW, for those who need the comfort of knowing that you have many like-minded friends, Dennis just won the www.truthout.org poll with over 44% of the vote, and guess what, TruthOut actually reported the results of their poll!! Check out fluxrostrum.com for some mainstream polls that oddly go unreported. BTW, there are many more than what is listed at the fluxrostrum site but check out the articles while you're there.

Most important for those who have not fully explored the far-reaching implications of Dennis's platform, be sure to check out this Rush Limbaugh-style video - except, unlike Rush, the producer of this video includes a ton of ACTUAL news clips covering what REALLY happened in Seattle. (You may recall that Dennis marched in Seattle.) Then fast forward to what happened at the FTAA protests in Miami a few weeks ago (as reported at IndyMedia and elsewhere) and multiply Seattle by a factor of about 100. Consider it news you won't hear from the national press. Go here to watch the video (about 35 minutes):

Totally mind-blowing and bone-chilling! This video is really worth your time, as is exploring many of the articles and other vidoes on this non-partisan site. Also check out www.globalresearch.ca which includes some declassified docs such as The Northwoods Proposal of 1962 and read the 1998 Senate hearings on US foreign policy in the middle East. Read at least a portion of all of this and you will know why it doesn't matter about party orientation, both Dems and Republicans (and most third party groups as well) are really "just different flavors of the same business party."

ONLY Dennis Kucinich is different, on his record, on his integrity and on his personal history. THAT, my folks is why you have such worthies as Howard Zinn and Dr. Patch Adams endorsing Dennis Kucinich. You really need to explore his platform issues, including his goal to dismantle corporate media, and to dismantle corporate agribusiness along with the corporate food industry that is responsible for a toxic food supply, and to challenge (and dismantle) the toxic mainstream medical model, and to boldly call for a cut in the military budget and so much more!

For starters, you can check out Dennis's latest statement on the Bush proposal (available on his website at www.kucinich.us) to make our airports "more secure" as follows:

"The Bush Administration is diverting resources to measures that appear to make us safer but actually make our lives more difficult and violate our privacy," said Kucinich. "The new system will require all airline passengers to provide their full names, home addressees, phone numbers, and dates of birth when they book flights. The government will feed that information into databases and produce profiles on all passengers. The databases will include government records, information from commercial systems such as Lexis-Nexis and Acxiom, and mailing lists and other commercial information. And the databases will be secret, and therefore no one will have any idea why they would be given a specific security level.

"The Administration is turning every airline ticket counter into a Big Brother Booth. Our freedoms and our liberties are on the line. This Administration is moving with breathtaking speed to demolish the Bill of Rights and privacy protections. In a democratic society we have a right to live free and they're taking that right away.

"What conceivable right does the government have to develop these database profiles? What else will the government do with the information? The FBI is already collecting information on people who attend peace demonstrations. What purposes will all of this data be put to? Once someone is deemed a threat to air travel, will they also be denied a driver's license? Will they be denied admittance to large public events?

"These are serious questions. Big Brother is here. This is absolutely unacceptable in a democracy. We have to live free, or it's not America anymore. I will work quickly to repeal the 'PATRIOT Act,' to repeal the intelligence authorization bill that slipped in sections of Patriot Act II, and to rescind all practices that mine data for the purpose of profiling.

"We are being driven to fear each other, and it is not helpful. There is no evidence that this new scheme, or duct tape and plastic, or the general color-coded terror threat warnings actually make us safer. Rather than pouring hundreds of billions into an illegal war that is destabilizing the Middle East and additional resources into assigning people color codes, we should be working to rejoin the world community and make the world safer through diplomacy and cooperation."

Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate for President who voted against the Patriot Act. He has introduced a bill to repeal major sections of that act. He has protested the proposals for a Patriot Act II. And he has committed to file suit to overturn the Patriot Act upon election as President.


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Re: PLEASE HELP Dennis Kucinich in Iowa
Current rating: 0
16 Jan 2004
Boy you can just sense the momentum. GO DENNIS GO!!! When questioned recently about his chances, Mr.Kucinich stated emphatically, "Why Yes, I do think I have a snowball's chance in Hell, Why do you ask?"

I know that taking the bus is not a novelty to any of you, but have a safe trip just the same.

Jack