Beyond the primary, what might be a plan for those who are engaged in electoral politics? An OSU student (a member of the OSU chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, among other things), who did a great job prodding the OSU Undergraduate Student Government to pass an anti-war resolution, has organized a local group called Students for Dennis, but so far he has been able to get few students excited about the Kucinich campaign. Sharpton and Kucinich will not get anywhere in the Democratic Party. As for the Greens, you wrote in LBO#103, "The theory of his [Nader's] candidacy...was that it was part of the effort to build the Green Party, and an alternative political movement larger than electoral politics. Little of this has happened. Though there are some bright spots here and there, the Green Party is mostly an embarrassment, having failed even to keep ballot status in New York and nominated a ludicrous candidate in the Minnesota Senate race." The Labor Party has been a dud. 2004 -- a lost year for activists, except some extra opportunities for protests? -- Yoshie
* Calendars of Events in Columbus: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>, <http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, & <http://www.cpanews.org/> * Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/> * Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osudivest.org/> * Al-Awda-Ohio: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio> * Solidarity: <http://solidarity.igc.org/>