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Winona LaDuke—Urge Support for Kerry
Some of us love Ralph Nader. Some hate him. Some voted for him in the last presidential election. Some of us did not. But now let's join together on Tuesday to vote Bush out of office. That means voting for Kerry.
I've recently joined Noam Chomsky, Phil Donahue, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Howard Zinn and dozens of other former Nader supporters in urging everyone to vote for Kerry in swing states. (Below, see the members of the "Nader 2000 Citizens' Committee" who are urging swing state support for Kerry.)
Click here to read former Nader running mate Winona LaDuke's eloquent explanation of why she is voting for Kerry this year: http://www.nativenationsnet.net/mod
Click here to see some of the differences between Kerry and Bush: http://www.americanvoice2004.org/askdav
If you know people who may vote for Ralph Nader, please forward this e-mail to them.
Yours for Booting Bush,
Ben Cohen President, TrueMajorityACTION
Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream+
P.S. If you want to join efforts to convince former Nader voters NOT to vote for Ralph Nader this year, visit www.repentantnadervoter.com
We, the undersigned, were selected by Ralph Nader to be members of his 113-person national "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee." This year, we urge support for Kerry/Edwards in all swing states, even while we strongly disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues. For people seeking progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election. Progressive votes for John Kerry in swing states may prove decisive in attaining this vital goal.
David Barsamian, Author, Radio Interviewer
Juliette Beck, California Citizens for Fair Trade
Herbert Bernstein, Professor of Physics at Hampshire College
Thomas Berry, Author, Dream of the Earth
Wendell Berry, Farmer and Writer
Norman Birnbaum, Author and Educator
Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit Activist and Writer
Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas
Eric Brakken, Former Staffer, United Students Against Sweatshops
Ira Byock, Palliative Care Physician, Author of Dying Well
Edgar Cahn, Founder of Time Banking
John Cavanagh, Director of Institute for Policy Studies
Noam Chomsky, Author and Professor at MIT
Steve Cobble, Strategist, Jackson '88, Nader '00, Kucinich '04
Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's
Peter Coyote, Actor and Writer
Ronnie Cummins, Director of Organic Consumers Association
Herman Daly, Professor at University of Maryland
Iris DeMent, Musician/Songwriter
Phil Donahue, Former Talk Show Host
Mark Dowie, Journalist, Former Editor/Publisher of Mother Jones
Barbara Dudley, Former President, Greenpeace and National Lawyers Guild
Ronnie Dugger, Co-founder of Alliance for Democracy
Troy Duster, Professor at New York University
Barbara Ehrenreich, Political Essayist and Social Critic
Richard Falk, Center of International Studies, Princeton University
Jim Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
Rebecca Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
Doris (Granny D) Haddock, Senate Candidate, Reform Activist
Paul Hawken, Author, Economist
Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network and Director of Sustainability, City of Oakland
Jim Hightower, Author and Commentator
Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
David Kairys, Law Professor at Temple University and Author
Ynestra King, Ecofeminist Writer/Activist
John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders
Philip M. Klasky, Co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World
Frances Korten, Director of Positive Futures Network
Saul Landau, California State Polytechnic University
Rabbi Michael Lerner, The Tikkun Community
Theodore Lowi, Political Scientist, Author
Howard Lyman, Former Rancher, Vegetarian Activist
Joanna Macy, Author and Scholar
Jerry Mander, President of International Forum on Globalization
Manning Marable, Institute for Research in African American Studies, Columbia
Redwood Mary, Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
Robert McChesney, Professor, University of Illinois
Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, University of California-Berkeley
Peter Montague, Environmental Research Foundation
Gus Newport, Former Mayor of Berkeley, California
Ruth Ozeki, Novelist
Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
Bonnie Raitt, Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter
Sheldon Rampton, Co-author of Banana Republicans
Marcus Raskin, Author
Tim Robbins
Vicki Robin, New Road Map Foundation
Susan Sarandon, Actor and Activist
John Schaeffer, Founder of Real Goods Trading Company
Michelle Shocked, Musician
John Stauber, Co-author of Banana Republicans
Andrew Strauss, Professor at Widener University School of Law
Charlotte Talberth, Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
Meredith Tax, Writer and Human Rights Activist
Studs Terkel, Author, Oral Historian
Tom Tomorrow, Cartoonist
Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine
Eddie Vedder, Musician, Pearl Jam
Harvey Wasserman, Author of Harvey Wasserman's History of the US
Cornel West, Professor, Author of Democracy Matters
Sheldon Wolin, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
Howard Zinn, Historian and Author
Other prominent Nader 2000 supporters endorsing this statement:
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
Jackson Browne
Jerry Greenfield, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's
Bob Harris, Author
Hazel Henderson, Economist and Author
Norman Solomon, Columnist
This list is posted on the web at http://www.vote2stopbush.com
+ I am writing this email on my own and not on behalf of Ben & Jerry's, which is not associated with the TrueMajorityAction campaign.
October 29 2004, 08:06:00 UTC 7 years ago
"With a 50/50 split, a vote for Nader really IS a vote for Bush, and everyone listed above knows it."
Discuss :)
October 29 2004, 08:07:50 UTC 7 years ago
October 29 2004, 08:13:30 UTC 7 years ago
When I voted for Nader, I really wanted him as my president. We were in the post-Clinton years of peace and prosperity, we were moving in the right direction on a number of issues, and a progressive candidate could have taken that steam and done something great with it.
But while Nader would have been great after Clinton, he would be terrible after Bush. You have to consider that forcing progressive policies will not only be unstable, but will make people genuinely hate progressives. For example, when conservatives refuse to fund progressive educations reforms, they will point to those reforms and say "look the didn't work, I guess it's time for vouchers." And people will go with them. We need to get on the right track with a centrist candidate for a couple years before we can move forward. It's like Bush beat the crap out of us and now we need 4-8 years of hospitalization before we can continue with our lives.
It's not progressive to vote for your candite reflexively. Progressives have always taken into account the context of things,and I think if you understand this election in its proper context progressives must support Kerry. Besides, while I was NOT going to vote for Gore, I think Kerry is much better candidate and I think he will do an admirable job of getting our troops home safer and of fighting for (slow) progress on the domestic front.
October 29 2004, 08:45:09 UTC 7 years ago
I can honestly see how some die-hard greens and independents think BOTH Bush and Kerry are horrible choices. Personally, I can see a lot of good in Kerry, MUCH more so than in Bush. I have no doubt Kerry would be a much better president, even if he wouldn't necessarily be the best. (Of course, my 10 year old cousin would make a better president than Bush).