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Nader Soon |
Current rating: 0 |
by MIke Lehman
(No verified email address) |
12 Apr 2001
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Reporting live from the front room at the Urbana-Champaign IMC... |
Your reporter is sitting in the front room at the U-C IMC, awaiting the arrival of Ralph Nader. Paul Kotheimer is playing serious folking music, people finishing a delicious organic veggie lunch, and all the real progressives in our community are present.
Ralph's plane was a little late in Chicago, but he should still arrive near to ontime. Ralph will be appearing at the Illini Union Bookstore for a book signing from 3 to 4pm. This evening, he will speak at the Foellinger Auditorium at 7pm. Those with tickets handed out earlier this week have reserved seats from 6:30pm to 7pm. At that time, all unused seats will be available to the public for free, so arrive just before 7pm if you want to be fairly sure of getting in.
A large number of local activists are speaking as a lead in to Ralph's comments at the Green Party reception at the IMC. Among the groups, in addition to the Prairie Greens and Illinois Green Party, are the Champaign County Living Wage Association, IPCUTS (to save our trees), Illinois Student Enviromental Network, union activist David Johnson and recent Urbana mayoral candidate Al Weiss. It was noted that Al received 5% of the vote in the mayor's race, after spending a total of $5. One wag commented that the Greens should spend $100 next time; with a return on their investment like that they might just win the whole thing. |
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Nader the "real" alternative? |
by Jason Pitzl
jpitzl (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
12 Apr 2001
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Mike Lehman wrote:
"and all the real progressives in our community are present"
So are only those people who hang out at U-C IMC waiting on Nader "real" progressives?
Personally while I voted for Nader and thought he was a better alternative than Shrub and Gorebot, I don't think Ralph is the end-all be-all to progressive politics, I just thought he was a more moral thoughtful choice.
Secondly while Nader was a useful catalyst in energising the more progressive elements in our country and helped re-invigorate the Greens, I don't think he would have made a particularly good executive of our country. I will be very interested to see what Mr. Nader will do come the next batch of elections.
-Jason Pitzl
P.S. Some progressives prefer Goth. Really.
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See also:
http://www.wildhunt.org
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Goth is Gore? |
by Mike Lehman
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Current rating: 0
13 Apr 2001
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Hmmm,
I'm not sure whether that was a Freudian typo or a slur on the Goth crowd;>)
Actually my remark in the story was directed more at a certain mayor who was recently reelected in spite of himself.
Generally I don't go for elitist generaliizations, so I must apologize for that. I was just doodling away on the terminal in the front room of the IMC and hadn't thought things through in that particular manner.
BTW, I hope if you're a progressive and you did vote for Gore, it was simply for fear of getting the greater of two evils and not because you truly beileve that Gore represented anything really progressive. At least the former represents being pragmatic, while the latter represents a shortage of vision, something that was the real reason Gore lost. |
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Goth, Gore, |
by Jason Pitzl
jpitzl (nospam) hotmail.com (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
13 Apr 2001
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No, not a Fruedian slip, more of a playful tweak on the "folking excellent" music. :)
No harm, no foul.
-Jason Pitzl |
See also:
http://www.wildhunt.org/sky
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