[lbo-talk] 2004 -- a lost year? (was Re: CW in Matrix)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Liza's doing a piece for The Nation on what the kids are up to, 
>electoral-politics-wise, so I'll defer to her on this. I'll just say 
>that it looks like Dean's the one - even some Greens are pushing 
>him. What that means, I dunno. I may be deluded, but it seems urgent 
>to me to get rid of Bush before anything half-decent can happen.
>
>Doug

If it's Dean, we can count on four more years of Bush & Co.
-- 
Yoshie

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