A necessary balance-sheet on the Gonzalez campaign and other articles

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The Gonzalez Campaign: A Necessary Balance-sheet

This Election Changed the Political Landscape in San Francisco. The Perspectives for the Left By Carlos Petroni

We have purposely delayed this balance-sheet. We wanted the main actors of the drama to speak for themselves before we spoke about them and the historic events of the last three months of last year’s political life in the City.

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For a Green Presidential Campaign in 2004
By Howie Hawkins

"I have no interest in a third party candidacy. None," says Kucinich. "I want to do it the other way -- bring third party candidates into the {Democratic] Party and get support in the primaries."
-- Ruth Conniff, "The Peace Candidate," The Progressive, April 2003

[Kucinich] recently told the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The Democratic Party created third parties by running to the middle. What I'm trying to do is to go back to the big tent so that everyone who felt alienated could come back through my candidacy."
-- CounterPunch, April 2003

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Greens speak up: The Regime We Must Change is Bipartisan
By Howie Hawkins and Ron Ehrenreich

Can peace and freedom activists resist wars abroad and repression at home by supporting a presidential candidate who supports war and repression?

One would think that the answer to that question would be obviously no! Yet Paul Street and Michael Albert answer yes in the November 2003 Syracuse Peace Council Newsletter.

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Bush's Iraq: an appointocracy
Washington wants carefully selected groups to do its bidding. Iraqis marching in the streets want the vote By NAOMI KLEIN

'The people of Iraq are free," declared U.S. President George W. Bush in Tuesday's Stateof the Union address. The day before, 100,000 Iraqis begged to differ. They took to the streets of Baghdad shouting "Yes, yes to elections. No, no to selection."


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The Avocado Declaration (Part1)
By Peter Camejo

INTRODUCTION

The Green Party is at a crossroads. The 2004 elections place before us a clear and unavoidable choice. On one side, we can continue on the path of political independence, building a party of, by and for the people by running our own campaign for President of the United States. The other choice is the well-trodden path of lesser-evil politics, sacrificing our own voice and independence to support whoever the Democrats nominate in order, we are told, to defeat Bush.

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Camejo's Avocado Declaration (Part 2)

OPPOSITION IS RISING

Opposition is rising against Bush. The massive overwhelming majority of the world is against Bush's war policies. The resistance to the occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the inability of the U.S. media and government to prevent the world from hearing the truth about these events, is weakening Bush's standing. The corporate interests and their media apparently want to make a great effort to get Bush elected, but if this becomes too difficult, the Democratic Party will be prepared to appear as an "opposition" that will continue the essence of Bush's policy with new justifications, modifications and adjusted forms.

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George Bush will have caused the poisoning of hundreds of thousands By Frederick Sweet www2.iraqwar.ru

When this war ends, George Bush will have caused the poisoning of hundreds of thousands more humans than he said Saddam Hussein poisoned.

In its 110,000 air raids against Iraq, the US A-10 Warthog aircraft launched 940,000 depleted uranium shells, and in the land offensive, its M60, M1 and M1A1 tanks fired a further 4,000 larger caliber also uranium shells. The Bush administration and the Pentagon said there is no danger to American troops or Iraqi civilians from breathing the uranium oxide dust produced in depleted uranium (DU) weapons explosions.

Selective memory and a dishonest doctrine
By Noam Chomsky

All people who have any concern for human rights, justice and integrity should be overjoyed by the capture of Saddam Hussein, and should be awaiting a fair trial for him by an international tribunal.

An indictment of Saddam's atrocities would include not only his slaughter and gassing of Kurds in 1988 but also, rather crucially, his massacre of the Shiite rebels who might have overthrown him in 1991.

At the time, Washington and its allies held the "strikingly unanimous view (that) whatever the sins of the Iraqi leader, he offered the West and the region a better hope for his country's stability than did those who have suffered his repression," reported Alan Cowell in the New York Times.

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