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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Felton wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"In any event, the policies in Iraq, on civil liberties, on labor
<BR>rights, on free trade, and all the other issues on which we share a
<BR>common concern, can be influenced by the building of a mass movement <BR>in
the streets, as well as by the election results. Let's agree to <BR>work
together and build a movement to fight around those issues <BR>regardless of
who's in the White House."</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the best thing said by Paul Felton.
It's an important reminder that there's some shit to do whatever happens in
November. </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most everything else Paul said
about Nader and the Greens was kind of irrelevant from my
perspective. It really doesn't matter very much who is elected, for
obvious reasons, though I'll vote for Kerry. Big deal!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know Paul Felton in Detroit. He's a good
and dedicated man, respected in local progressive and labor circles. But
here's my rub. Paul was one of many around the country who were Labor
Party activists before Nader/Greens, 2000, and who followed the "Nader
action" and jumped the Labor Party ship at a critical and delicate time in the
LP's development. Like many other devotees and leaders in the LP, Paul was
disillusioned with the ambiguity of the Labor Party at the time. For good
reason. He became part of the informal "Labor-Green" network
that emerged. I fail to find any kind of serious political motion emerging
from this tendency. More recently, Paul seems to have turned pure Green,
if I have this correctly. Now, I would approve of a Green marrying my
daughter, but I'll bet we would have some pretty heated dialogues whenever
there was a family get-together.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob Mast</FONT></DIV>
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