Re: Camejo and Nader: the contrast

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Paramo wrote:
> Luckily, the Greens
> seemed to have collected around $15,000 in tickets
> sold and about $45,000 more at a collection and
> fundaraising after Camejo spoke and before Nader kind
> of threw his bucket of cold water.  His cynicism did
> not fare well with many new people in politics that
> came for the first time to hear him speak and paid
> $10-12 per person to do so.  Nader seemed very
> affected and demoralized by the reactionary
> conjuncture in the US and the degree of support for
> the thieves and cheaters, liars and warmongers in the
> White House and Congress.


Village Voice, October 9 - 15, 2002
by Richard Goldstein

Dreaming Green
Stanley Aronowitz Wants to Build a Progressive Party?Crack by Crack

A huge inflatable pig, the veteran of many demos, squatted on Wall Street 
last Friday, as 1500 people gathered to assail the usual 
military-industrial suspects. Ralph Nader had organized this rally to 
promote his group Democracy Rising, so there was no Green Party banner in 
sight. But the Greens' candidate for governor of New York, Stanley 
Aronowitz, did get to speak. His modest proposal?that corporate criminals 
be put to work cleaning up the environment, at minimum wage?got a rousing 
roar.

That evening, Nader endorsed Aronowitz at a campaign benefit, noting that 
the candidate "has written more books than his opponents have read."

Still, there is friction between the Greens and the Great Slayer of Gore. 
"Nader thinks the party is too contentious," Aronowitz says, adding that 
Nader "still believes the Greens are the place where alternatives are 
offered."

full: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0241/goldstein.php


Louis Proyect
www.marxmail.org


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