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DESCRIPTION:\n       Thursday, August 1, 2002\n       7:00pm\n\n       "Avoiding the 
 Evil of Two Lessors"\n       Micah L. Sifry \n       author of Spoiling for 
 a Fight: Third-Party Politics in America\n       speaking at\n\n       
 Abandoned Planet Bookstore\n       518 Valencia Street\n       (on Valencia 
 St. between 16th & 17th Street,\n       near 16th & Mission BART station)\n 
       San Francisco, CA\n\n       Author Micah L. Sifry, a former editor of 
 The Nation, discusses his book and\n       presents the prospects for new 
 third-party efforts.  As more Americans now\n       identify as political 
 independents than as either Democrats or Republicans,\n       Micah offers 
 incite into the rise of third-party politics.  Micah details\n       Ross 
 Perot's ascendancy and the implosion of the Reform Party, how Jesse\n       
 Ventura was elected Governor of Minnesota, the U.S. Supreme Court's\n       
 hostility to new and minor political parties, the turbulence of Ralph\n     
   Nader's Green Party run for the presidency, and third-parties new 
 challenges\n       to urban political machines and successes in winning 
 local offices.\n       Micah Sifry is Senior Analyst at Public Campaign, a 
 nonpartisan campaign\n       finance reform group. He is co-editor of The 
 Gulf War Reader, and his work\n       has appeared in the New York Times, 
 The Nation, The American Prospect, The\n       Progressive, Salon, Wired, 
 and Tikkun.\n\n       Lecture, discussion and book signing. Free.\n\n       
 For more info:\n       Jim Dorenkott jimdorenkott3@hotmail.com\n       June 
 Brashares 1-510-551-9689\n\n       ³No one knows third-party politics like 
 Micah Sifry. Spoiling for a Fight\n       delves deeply into the real story 
 of today's outside-the-box politics and\n       the threat posed by third 
 parties to the stuck-in-the-muck two-party system.\n       The past, 
 present and future of America's third-parties: it's all here.²\n       
 --David Corn, Washington Editor, The Nation\n\n       *³At last, an 
 engrossing book about Third Parties that is dynamic and\n       portentous 
 for the future of American Politics.² --Ralph Nader\n\n       ³Finally, 
 the whole story of the rise of third-party politics. If you want\n       
 the facts on the revolution that's just beginning, read this book.²\n      
  --Governor Jesse Ventura\n\n       ³Both sobering and empowering. Whether 
 you like Ross Perot, Jesse Ventura\n       and Ralph Nader or want to wring 
 their necks, you've got to read this\n       book.²--Arianna 
 Huffington\n\n       *In this debut book, Sifry presents a vivid tapestry 
 of the problems faced\n       by, as well as the enormous potential promise 
 of, alternative political\n       parties. Always optimistic, Sifry is 
 never naive (he details with precision\n       how the Gore campaign 
 countered Nader's popularity by addressing issues\n       raised by the 
 latter without ever integrating them into the Democratic\n       platform) 
 and presents a balanced, important and enlightened new way to\n       think 
 through the political process.\n       -From Publishers Weekly\n\n       *A 
 must read for democracy reformers!²\n       --Frances Fox Piven, co-author 
 of Why Americans Still Don't Vote\n\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9303.php
SUMMARY:"AVOIDING THE EVIL OF TWO LESSORS" 3rd Party Politics w author Micah Sifry
LOCATION:  Abandoned Planet Bookstore, \n       518 Valencia Street\n       (on 
 Valencia St. between 16th & 17th Street,\n       near 16th & Mission BART 
 station)\n       San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/9303.php
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