Mn-prog-events Mailing List: Progressive Calendar 04.01.06

[David Shove (shove001]

            P R O G R E S S I V E   C A L E N D A R      04.01.06

1. Bolivia/elections 4.01 10am
2. Mn NOW            4.01 11am
3. StP Green Party   4.01 12noon
4. Airport dike      4.01 12noon
5. CD training       4.01 1pm
6. Gray Panthers     4.01 2pm
7. YAWR walkout meet 4.01 3pm
8. Labor forum/NWA   4.01 7pm
9. Music/politics    4.01 7pm
10. Women's erotica  4.01 7pm

11. Bill Van Auken - Dems midterm platform: a blueprint for endless war

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From: Mary Turck <mturck [at] americas.org>
Subject: Bolivia/elections 4.10 10am

Saturday, April 1 Bolivian Elections [Part of weekly coffee hour series,
with a talk by a featured speaker and discussion. Saturdays, 10-11:30 a.m.
$4 includes first cup of coffee. Resource Center of the Americas, 3019
Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis 55406 FFI: 612-276-0788] James Lerager,
documentary photographer, will share his work and insights on the recent
Bolivian elections. (Photo exhibit accompanies coffeehour.)


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From: Bonnie [at] mnwomen.org
Subject: Mn NOW 4.01 11am

Saturday, April 1: Minnesota NOW hosts "Programs: Past, Present, and
Future." Program Committee Chair will lead a discussion on program
committee work.  This organization is alive with intergenerational
dialogue - be part of it!  11am-12:30pm, Minnesota Women's Building, 550
Rice Street, St. Paul. 651/222-1065.

Also April 1: Twin Cities Gray Panthers, Composing a Life that Excites your
Spirit - an intergenerational discussion with Rita Golden Gelman, author of
"Tales of a Female Nomad". 2 PM. Wilder Foundation Auditorium, 919 Lafond
Ave., St. Paul. More info, contact Sally Brown at 651/642-4091.


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From: ed
Subject: StP Green Party 4.01 12noon

All people interested in finding out more about the Green Party of St. Paul
are invited to:

Our monthly meeting
First Saturday of every month
Mississippi Market, 2nd floor
Corner of Selby/Dale in St. Paul
noon until 2 pm
<http://www.gpsp.org>


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From: Jay Wilkinson <balthazarw [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Airport dike 4.01 12noon

Rally for River, noon, next Saturday.  A partial replica of the planned 9
foot dike will be on display.

A new twist among many other bad ideas, in order that a few businesses and
their CEOs save ten minutes on landing at and driving from MSP, the plan
now includes dredging 155,000 cubic yards out of the bottom and shoreline
of the Mississippi to compensate for lost flood plain.  You can be sure
that the well-polluted sludge will not end up in Jay Fishman's back yard.
And I have the idea that ole man river is just going to fill in those
holes again in not too many years.

Directions:
East on Plato Blvd, Plato morphs into Bayfield St. at north end of
airport, continue on Plato to east side of airport and near the
MIssissippi.

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From: Gjerry Berquist <GjerryBerquist6 [at] msn.com>

Participate in the biggest (250+) rally yet to Save Our Great River
Floodplain this Saturday, April 1, at noon, at Holman Field Airport.

Arrive at noon, the rally will be short and sweet.  Witness a 24x9 feet
replica of the proposed dike, celebrate the river and our connection to it
with the Danza Mexica Cuahtemoc and songs from members of The Eddies and
the Barra Irish band.  Learn more about why the dike is truly a bad idea
for the river and our city's quality of life.  Speeches by those that have
been working on this issue for years will be short and concise.

Support to save our floodplain is growing!  All but one member (Tim
Mahoney) of the St. Paul Legislative Delegation have advised Chris Coleman
of their opposition to the MAC's plans for the dike.  A list of
organizations which oppose the dike appear below.

Join the rally at the Eastern End of Bayfield Street..  Head East on
Plato, follow signs to airport. On the North Side of airport, drive past
the Old Terminal building, turn left at the Big gates (3M Hanger) toward
the River and follow Bayfield Street to its end.  Plenty of parking.
Please bring your children, neighbors, and friends. Come a bit early if
the weather is nice to walk a stretch of this River connection.  Cookies
will be provided!!!

Organizations that have expressed opposition to and concern about the
proposed floodwall:

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Climb the Wind Institute
Dayton's Bluff District 4 Community Council
District One Community Council
Friends of the Mississippi River
Friends of the Parks and Trails of Saint Paul and Ramsey County
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
National Park Service, Mississippi National River and Recreation Area
Northwest Airlines
Ramsey County Soil and Water Conservation District
Saint Paul Audubon Society East Metro Region
St. Paul Senate Delegation:  Senators Anderson, Cohen, Moua & Pappas
St. Paul House Delegation:  Representatives Entenza, Hausman, Johnson,
Lesch, Mariani, Paymar & Thao,
St. Paul Yacht Club
Sierra Club North Star Chapter
Sustainable Saint Paul
West Side Citizens Organization

A Note from Whitney Clark, Friends of the Mississippi River:  "While the
proposed dike will be up to eight feet high as measured from the elevation
of Holman Field it will actually be 19 FEET! above the ordinary high water
mark and higher than that during low water. We should always refer to the
dike as a 19 Foot high wall. From the perspective of a small craft at
water level this will be a very imposing structure!"

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From: Linda Winsor <ljwinsor [at] yahoo.com>

Community to erect 24x9-foot wall to demonstrate opposition to MAC's
proposed Holman Field dike

This Saturday, April 1, at noon, neighbors, civic and environmental
leaders will rally on Bayfield Street at the Holman Field Airport to "save
our great river floodplain."

Exactly at noon, neighbors will erect a 24x9' model of the proposed
sheetmetal piling, which as planned would span a mile of the downtown
riverfront, 22-feet above the water level, and nine feet above road grade
on Bayfield Street.  Members of St. Paul Irish band Barra, The Eddies
singing group, and Danza Azteca will perform as part of the rally.

All but one member of the St. Paul legislative delegation (see list below)
recently alerted St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman of their opposition to this
$46 million project of the Metropolitan Airports Commission.  Burlington
Northern Santa Fe and CP railroads as well as Northwest Airlines are among
the corporations who have expressed concern about the project.  A list of
organizations who have expressed opposition to the wall appears below.

The project has raised grave concern of environmentalists because of its
impact on the river environment and St. Paul's floodplain.  The MAC has
admitted the the $46 million pricetag for the project doesn't meet a
conventional cost benefit analysis, and that expansion of air traffic,
while uncertain, is likely.  Given the lack of public process, many are
questioning the St. Paul Planning Commission's recent approval of
variances, with so few answers from the MAC about its future plans and
their impact on the Mississippi River and the city's quality of life.

Holman Field, with the longest runway of any of the metro area reliever
airports, can serve planes weighing up to 60,000-pounds, making it viable
for the relocation of cargo traffic, now based at Minneapolis St. Paul
International Airport. There is also concern that the current small
businesses which operate out of Holman Field will be hit with huge rent
increases, to make room for larger users.

The St. Paul City Council will hold a public hearing on the project on
Wednesday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m.  The Friends of the Parks and Trails of
St. Paul and Ramsey County has been joined by the St. Paul Audubon Society
and the Friends of the Mississippi River in appealing the Planning
Commissions approval of variances to begin extensive excavation of the
river before construction of the dike can begin.

For information, contact Tom Dimond:  dimondt [at] earthlink.net or 651.735.6667

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From: Michelle Hoffman <mhoffmandesign [at] comcast.net>

This Saturday at noon we'll be gathering to Save Our Great River
Floodplain. Jay's right, the plan is to remove 155,000 cubic yards of soil
from within the protected Critical Area. An area where endangered mussels
are being restocked by the DNR.

"In 1973, the Critical Areas Act was enacted (Minnesota Statutes, Chapter
116G). The Minnesota Legislature found that the development of certain
areas possessing important historic, cultural, or aesthetic values or
natural systems that perform functions of greater than local significance
could result in irreversible damage to these resources, decrease their
value and utility for public purposes, or unreasonably endanger life and
property. The state should identify these areas of critical concern and
assist and cooperate with local units of government in preparation of
plans and regulations for wise use of these areas. Pursuant to the
statutes, the Environmental Quality Board adopted rules to implement the
Act (Minnesota Rules, parts 4410.8100 - 4410.9910)"

Imagine how many of these threatened mussels would be removed by the
approximately 15,000 dumptruck loads of soil that would be hacked out of
the river and its bank.

This proposed floodwall would destroy the floodplain - make it NO MORE.
Good bye to an unbelievable resource with the potential to CREATE a
revenue stream as a park and birdwatching area hooked up to the other
linkages taking place along the river.

This proposed dike will be 19 feet above ordinary high water mark.
Imagine how this would impact your experience of the river as you float
by.

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From: Sustainable St. Paul <info [at] sustainablestpaul.org>

Sustainable St. Paul members, you're invited!

SAVE OUR GREAT RIVER FLOODPLAIN RALLY
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 1, at noon, at Holman Field Airport (directions
below)

Our St. Paul City Council and Mayor will soon decide whether plans to
build a floodwall at the Holman Field downtown airport to move forward.
Businesses, neighborhood district councils, and environmentalists have
raised concerns about the issue, including the high cost to taxpayers, the
impact that the wall will have on the Mississippi River, and exacerbated
noise and quality of life issues caused by increased air traffic.  St.
Paul must have both sustainable economic development AND livable
neighborhoods!

COME TO THE RALLY AT NOON ON SATURDAY!

* Witness a 24x9 feet replica of the proposed dike,
* Celebrate the river with music by members of The Eddies and Barra Irish
band,
* See Danza Mexica Cuauhtemo dance,
* Enjoy light snacks, AND
* Learn more about why the dike is truly a bad idea for the river and our
city's quality of life, and what YOU can do to take action.

CAN'T MAKE IT?  Plan on attending the City Council hearing on the
floodwall on Wednesday, March 5, at 5:30 pm.  City Council Chambers, third
floor, City Hall (15 Kellogg Blvd W, St. Paul).

FFI: Tom at 651-735-6667

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From: Jane Prince <jprince71 [at] yahoo.com>

Just a quick reminder for you to come to the biggest rally yet to Save Our
Great River Floodplain -- tomorrow, April 1, at noon, at Holman Field
Airport.  The weather's supposed to be great!

Arrive at noon, the rally will be brief and fun-filled.  Witness a 24x9
feet replica of the proposed Holman Field floodwall, celebrate the river
with music by members of The Eddies and Barra Irish band, Danza Mexica
Cuauhtemoc; Mark Twain's thinking about dropping by!  Cookies, snacks,
maybe hot dogs!  Learn more about why the dike is truly a bad idea for the
river and our city's quality of life.

Take 94 to 52 (Lafayette Bridge) and take Plato Blvd. and go east.  Join
the rally at the South End of Bayfield Street, east of the terminal
building, between the river and many airport hangers.  Drive PAST the
Terminal building, turn left at the big gates toward the River and follow
Bayfield Street to its end.  Plenty of parking.  DON'T give up!  If you
need help finding it, call 651/308-4984.

Please bring your children, neighbors, and friends! Many thanks to all for
spreading the word!

Jane Prince Mounds Park 1004 Burns Ave. St. Paul, MN 55106 651/308-4984


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From: Jess Sundin <jess [at] antiwarcommittee.org>
Subject: CD training 4.01 1pm

Civil Disobedience Training

Saturday 4/1 @ 1pm, Mayday Bookstore (301 Cedar Ave, Minneapolis)
Come learn about how civil disobedience is a powerful form of protest.
Learn how we can do it safely together, and how you can get involved and
be supportive, even if you don't want to get arrested.


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From: Bonnie [at] mnwomen.org
Subject: Gray Panthers 4.01 2pm

April 1: Twin Cities Gray Panthers, Composing a Life that Excites your
Spirit - an intergenerational discussion with Rita Golden Gelman, author
of "Tales of a Female Nomad". 2 PM. Wilder Foundation Auditorium, 919
Lafond Ave., St. Paul. More info, contact Sally Brown at 651/642-4091.


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From: Lydia Howell <lhowell [at] visi.com>
Subject: YAWR walkout meet 4.01

WALKOUT Planning Meeting
for Youth Against War and Racism activists and chapter reps
Saturday, April 1, 3-5pm

Resource Center of the Americas
Menchu Room (downstairs)
3019 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis
At Lake and Minnehaha, near Lake St. light rail stop and #21 bus
If you need a ride, or have other questions, call Ty at 612-760-1980

See proposed agenda below

The Twin Cities April 28 Walkout is just one month away, and momentum is
building fast. Our last YAWR meeting on March 18th drew around 50 youth
from schools across the region. We have already distributed over 1,000
copies of /RESISTANCE!/ (http://www.yawr.org/resistance1.pdf) to promote
the walkout.

If you want a bundle of /RESISTANCE! /newsletters to distribute in your
school, email tytymo [at] gmail.com <mailto:tytymo [at] gmail.com> or call
612-760-1980 to make arrangements.

On April 28th we expect an even larger walkout and rally than on November
2nd , when 2000 students from over 40 schools rallied at the U of M. Not
only are we better organized, but the bloodshed and crisis in Iraq is
deepening and anger against the war is rising faster than ever here at
home. Polls show most Americans are demanding an end to the war, but still
Bush and Congress are sending more young soldiers to kill and be killed in
the brutal occupation of Iraq.

PROPOSED AGENDA:

   1. Reports on our work from each school
   2. Getting walkout stickers, buttons, leaflets distributed
   3. Details for April 28th - where to march? Do we want a
      concert/festival afterwards? A mass indoor rally?
   4. Free speech challenges - how to fight for your right to organize
      in your high school!
   5. fundraising for walkout costs
   6. Any other business and next meeting

If you want to add something to agenda, email against.war [at] gmail.com
<mailto:against.war [at] gmail.com> or bring up your proposal to the beginning
of the meeting.


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From: Solidarity Committee <nwasolidaritymsp [at] hotmail.com>
Subject: Labor forum/NWA 4.01 7pm

LESSONS FROM THE NORTHWEST AIRLINES STRIKE
An Open Forum for Strikers, Union Members, and Activists

6 months into the Mechanics & Cleaners Strike - What can we learn?  How
can workers win in the face of corporate attacks, media complicity, and
union disunity?

Sponsored by the IWW

SATURDAY APRIL 1st  7PM
MACALASTER COLLEGE
JOHN B. DAVIS AUDITORIUM
(CAMPUS CENTER BASEMENT)
SNELLING & GRAND
SAINT PAUL, MN

Speakers:
Ted Ludwig President AMFA Local 33
Prof. Peter Rachleff Labor Historian & Activist
Rank & File Members of AMFA, IAM, PFAA, IWW & NWA Workers Solidarity
Committee

OPEN DISCUSSION

Plus: Video Presentation:
"The Red Tail" trailer (documentary-in-progress on the NWA Strike & news
clips of Strike direct action

Sponsored by the IWW Industrial Workers of the World - Twin Cities Branch
612-339-4418 jpila [at] iww.org PO BOX 14111 MPLS, MN 55414


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From: clay0092 <clay0092 [at] umn.edu>
Subject: Music/politics 4.01 7pm

Saturday (4/1)
Amps 4 Action
Bands:  Mel Gibson and the Pants, Building Better Bombs and A Summary
Execution, Sponsored by Radio K and The Whole

7-11:00, The Whole Music Club, Coffman Memorial Union, 18+ w/ID, Free
Political awareness concert, with speakers, opportunities for political
involvement and prizes awarded for attending the event and others
coinciding with Campus to Capital week.


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From: Jennifer <jennifer_nemo [at] yahoo.com>
Subject: Women's erotica 4.01 7pm

1st SATURDAY
 7pm. A reading and signing with Catherine Lundoff / Paula Fleming / Elise
Matthesen as part of the "Women's Erotica Reading: Various Anthologies"
series. Query Booksellers, 520 E. Hennepin Ave., Mpls; 612-331-7701.

[It begins:

She is dying to meet the editor of the Progressive Calendar. So are all
the women I know, she sighs. What chance have I against those countless
legions, unless - unless I appeal to his political sensuality?  Those
articles at the end of the Calendar - god, what a turn on! What if I were
to write one that would knock his, ahem, socks off? How could he resist? I
could be the antithesis of his thesis, and together we could climb to the
o-so-longed-for synthesis! O word so sweet!

Well, we'd better stop here with the story of "Zelda, Lay Preacher"; it's
clearly getting too hot to handle; my screen and keyboard are beginning to
melt, and with it what little morality I have left... -ed]


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Democrats unveil midterm election platform: a blueprint for endless war
By Bill Van Auken
31 March 2006
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/dems-m31.shtml

The Democrats unveiled the first major element of their campaign platform
for the 2006 midterm elections Wednesday, making it plain that the party
intends to cynically adapt to the mass hostility that exists within the
American people to the US war in Iraq, while pledging to continue that war
and even escalate the buildup of American militarism.

The statement, entitled "Real Security," was presented at Washington's
Union Station by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi, together with other Congress members, as well as
Clinton's former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former NATO
commander and unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark
- both of whom played key roles in the 1999 US war against Yugoslavia.

The thrust of this document, reiterated by the party's Congressional
leaders, is that the Bush administration has bungled the war in Iraq and
the overall "global war on terror," and that the Democrats can do a more
competent job of waging both.

The underlying premise is the same as that employed by the Bush
administration to terrorize the American people into accepting an illegal
and unprovoked war abroad and historic attacks on basic democratic rights
at home: that there exists some omnipresent terrorist threat that makes
"national security" the overriding priority to which all else must be
subordinated.

The Democrats, no less than the Republicans, promote the big lie that the
September 11, 2001 attacks - an event that has yet to be seriously
explained or investigated - make it a matter of self defense for the US to
carry out "preemptive" war against largely defenseless countries and to
continue the vast expansion of American military might.

In a sense, in elaborating its 2006 election strategy the Democratic Party
has turned inside out the cowardly policy that it adopted - to such
disastrous effect - in the last midterm election in 2002. Then, the
Democrats decided to ignore the looming war in Iraq - after trying to get
the issue off the table by voting to authorize the war on the eve of the
election - running strictly on a domestic agenda.

Now, they are attempting to make "national security" their preeminent
issue, declaring that "the first responsibility of our government is the
security of every American" and that the Democrats possess a policy that
is "both tough and smart."

The Democratic document indicts the Bush administration not for having
launched an illegal and immoral war of aggression that has claimed the
lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and over 2,300 American military
personnel, but rather for failing to succeed in this criminal venture.

"The war in Iraq began with manipulated intelligence and no plan for
success," the document states. No, the war began with a massive propaganda
campaign of lies, in which the Democratic Party leadership was a full and
indispensable participant.

For Democrats to now complain that they were victims of "manipulated
intelligence" is a patent fraud. Tens of millions of people around the
world, and millions in the US, took to the streets to oppose the Iraq war
because they understood perfectly well that the Bush administration's
claims about weapons of mass destruction and Iraqi terrorist ties were
lies. That the Democratic leadership chose to accept and echo them was not
a matter of gullibility, but rather of class interest.

The war in Iraq was a consensus policy within the American ruling elite: a
conscious decision to utilize US military might to seize oil resources and
strategic positions in the Middle East as a means of furthering the drive
for US global hegemony at the expense of American capitalism's economic
rivals in Europe and Asia. What differences existed - and exist today -
were strictly of a tactical character about how best such a war could be
prepared and executed.

The Democrats will continue this war and have no intention of turning the
2006 midterm election into a referendum on whether US troops should be
withdrawn. While polls indicate that not only a majority of the American
people, but a majority of the soldiers deployed in Iraq as well, want an
end to the war and a withdrawal of American troops, the Democratic Party
is not proposing anything of the sort.

The party's election statement calls only for "the Iraqis assuming primary
responsibility for securing and governing their country" and "the
responsible redeployment of US forces."

These ambiguous formulations are in no way distinguishable from the policy
of the Bush White House. The call for "responsible redeployment" means
that US troops will remain in Iraq until all resistance to the US takeover
of the country is crushed. To the extent that a tactical shift is
suggested, it is one in which American forces would be redeployed to
permanent bases, utilizing air strikes and rapid reaction forces to
suppress a hostile population. It is a prescription for a protracted
colonial war which promises an even more horrendous death toll among Iraqi
civilians.

The statement continues, vowing that the Democrats will "insist that
Iraqis make the political compromises necessary to unite their country and
defeat the insurgency." How such insistence on what policies the Iraqis
must follow is consistent with the document's vow to ensure "full Iraqi
sovereignty" is not explained. Clearly, the aim of the Democrats, just
like the Republicans, is to install an obedient client state that will
defend US interests, accept US bases and control of Iraqi oil fields and
assist in repressing any popular opposition.

Nor does the Democratic plan stop at Iraq. It vows to "eliminate Osama bin
Laden" and to "finish the job in Afghanistan, and end the threat posed by
the Taliban." In other words, the party proposes an escalation of the long
simmering US war in Central Asia.

Moreover, it pledges to "redouble efforts to stop nuclear weapons
development in Iran and North Korea." While the document makes no mention
of how the party intends to accomplish this goal, leading Democrats, such
as New York's Senator Hillary Clinton, have repeatedly attacked Bush from
the right on this issue, demanding a more aggressive policy, particularly
against Iran.

While laying the political foundations for still more US wars, the
document also promises to make concrete preparations to execute them.

It pledges to "rebuild a state-of-the-art military by making the needed
investments in equipment and manpower so that we can project power to
protect America wherever and whenever necessary."

The suggestion that the Bush administration, which succeeded this year in
passing - with Democratic approval - a record $440 billion Pentagon
budget, has failed to make "needed investments" in the military is
breathtaking. The gargantuan Pentagon budget already amounts to more than
the combined military spending of every other nation on the planet and has
been fed through the systematic slashing of funding for vital social
needs.

The "Real Security" plan proposes to "double the size of our Special
Forces" and "increase our human intelligence capabilities." In other
words, it envisions a substantial increase in the US military's waging of
dirty wars against insurgent peoples - the specialty of the Special Forces
- as well as a further expansion of US spying.

Significantly, in the entire document there is no mention of the Bush
administration's illegal domestic wiretapping operation - which after
barely a month has been abandoned as an issue by the Democratic leadership
- and indeed no statement pledging to uphold democratic rights at all.

In every election campaign, progressives take a principled position of
rejecting the argument of voting for the Democrats as the "lesser of two
evils" on the grounds that together with the Republicans this party is a
key component of a two-party system that serves to defend the interests of
the ruling elite. To back a supposedly less reactionary Democrat against a
Republican only serves to derail the necessary struggle to establish the
political independence of working people from both big business parties.

In 2006, however, as this document issued by the Democratic congressional
leadership makes clear, the "lesser evil" argument fails on its face. To a
large extent, the Democrats are challenging the Bush administration from
the right.

There are some who are attempting to mount primary challenges to those
like Hillary Clinton, who have functioned as willing accomplices of the
Bush administration in launching and continuing the war in Iraq. They
claim to be engaged in a struggle for the "soul of the Democratic Party."
I say: don't waste your time. The Democratic Party has no soul; it sold
it, and at a good price.

Leading party officials have either been drawn from the ranks of the
super-rich or - like the Clintons - have become immensely wealthy through
connections forged with big business while in office. A prime example of
the real interests represented by this party can be found in the person of
California Senator Dianne Feinstein, whose husband Richard Blum owns major
interests in firms that have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from
military contracts supporting the war in Iraq.

The unpostponable task posed before all those seeking a means to fight
war, social reaction and attacks on democratic rights is a decisive break
with the Democrats and the building of a new independent party of
theAmerican people, based on a perspective of progressive, humanitarian
values.


[I left the Dem party 12 years ago, when Clinton went for NAFTA, and have
never regretted it.

The DP has continued its rightward march, worse every election, promising
nothing but smaller portions of the bad stuff the RP dishes out. It has
not been "reformed from within"; there is no hint of such a reform or
reformers; they are overwhelmed by hacks with ruling class money.

It is hard for old-line Dems to admit that their party is gone; that the
sometime choice between pretty bad (RP) and some improvement (DP) is gone.
No more improvement; no more better future; just scaring us to give up
half so we don't have to give up all.

And it's all for the rich. The cowardice and decline of the DP, the
endless wars for stolen resources, the attacks on democratic rights, and
on. It's what the rich want. I say, To hell with the rich; let us no
longer defer to them, or rely on them for money for campaigns or media or
jobs or anything else. Let us build a world without them. The bottom 99.9%
can run the world quite well, thank you - a lot better than when that .1%
is mismanaging the world for a quick buck.

12 years ago I joined the Green Party, and have never regretted it.
Crucially, the GP does not take PAC money. No big contributions from
anyone; no big contributions from the rich. We don't want them running us;
we don't want to defer to them; we want to be able to plan a world they
don't run. How about you? -ed]

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