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Food for Thought

Vol. 1, No. 3--November, 2004

BARBARA LEE (House of Representatives D-Calif.)
"As a progressive, I have frequently agreed with Ralph Nader's agenda. But all Americans, and especially communities of color, stand to lose too much under four more years of the right wing Bush administration..."

NOAM CHOMSKY
"Anyone who says 'I don't care if Bush gets elected' is basically telling poor and working people in the country, 'I don't care if your lives are destroyed. I don't care whether you are going to have a little money to help your disabled mother. I just don't care, because from my elevated point of view I don't see much difference between them.' That's a way of saying, 'Pay no attention to me, because I don't care about you.' Apart from its being wrong, it's a recipe for disaster if you're hoping to ever develop a popular movement and a political alternative."

MICHAEL MOORE (filmmaker, author)
"There are times to vote to make a statement, there are times to vote for the underdog and there are times to vote to save the country from catastrophe. This time we can and must do all three."

MEDEA BENJAMIN (former Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, 2000)
"I love and appreciate Ralph Nader, but I definitely want to get Bush out of office, so I won't vote for him, which would be a first for me."

ROBERT MCCHESNEY (co-editor of the Monthly Review and president of professors' council of the US Campus Greens)
"Running a presidential candidate in 2004 for the Greens is probably a quantum leap off a cliff. It is the Greens' Jonestown."

JEFF COHEN (PDA initiating sponsor and author/commentator, April 2004)
"Kerry vs. Bush is not Coke vs. Pepsi. It's more like Coke vs. Arsenic. The Bush/Rumsfeld/Ashcroft regime is more dangerous than the regimes of Nixon/Kissinger/Mitchell or Reagan/Weinberger/Meese. Despite dissatisfaction with some of Kerry's rhetoric and platform, progressives should mobilize to defeat Bush in '04 and stay mobilized in '05 and after to ensure that our agenda is heard and addressed by the Kerry administration that we help elect."

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