[Marxism] PSL Announces Presidential Campaign 2008

["Auguste Blanqui" <blanquist@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Subject line: PSL Announces President Campaign: Vote Socialist in 2008!
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> VOTE PSL in 2008!
> http://www.VotePSL.org <http://www.votepsl.org/>
> Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL)
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> *Gloria La Riva for President and Eugene Puryear for Vice President
> *Iraq war veteran Michael Prysner for Congress (22nd, Fl.)
>
> Today, working and poor people in the United States are facing an ever
> deepening crisis. The inflation rate is the highest it has been in the last
> 17 years, and major corporations such as Citibank and J.P. Morgan have
> reported multi-billion dollar losses in the last fiscal quarter. Poor and
> working people--the vast majority of the population--will bear the brunt of
> this crisis. Millions more people will be laid off and lose their homes.
> Basic needs such as quality health care and education will become even less
> attainable.
>
> The war in Iraq is an imperialist war. Hundreds of thousands have died in an
> unprovoked war of aggression. It is a war for domination over the entire
> oil-rich Middle East. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and other officials should
> stand trial for what will be remembered as one of the great crimes of the
> modern era. They could not have succeeded without the complicity of the
> Democratic Party leadership. We are campaigning on the program of immediate
> withdrawal of all U.S. and foreign forces from Iraq.
>
> The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) is a newly formed working class
> party of leaders and activists from many different struggles, founded to
> promote the movement for revolutionary change and to fight for socialism--a
> system where the wealth of society belongs to those who produce it, the
> working class, and is used in a planned and sustainable way for the benefit
> of all.
>
> The PSL is proud to announce that our party is fielding a slate of
> candidates 2008 U.S. presidential elections: Gloria La Riva for President
> and Eugene Puryear for Vice President. In various cities across the country,
> the party will also run local candidates, including Iraq war veteran Michael
> Prysner, who is running for Congress in Florida.
> http://www.VotePSL.org <http://www.votepsl.org/>
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> PSL CANDIDATES
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> Gloria La Riva & Eugene Puryear
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> PSL candidates La Riva and Puryear have spent their lives fighting against
> the interests of big capital. As leaders in the anti-war movement and
> volunteer organizers of the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End
> Racism), they have been involved in organizing hundreds of thousands of
> people to oppose the criminal war against the Iraqi people. They have also
> been involved in massive struggles for immigrant rights, to free the Jena 6,
> for workers' rights and more.
>
> "The Democrats and Republicans are twin parties in the back pocket of Wall
> Street and the military-industrial complex. They do not and cannot represent
> the interests of poor and working people. We will intervene in these
> elections to represent the interests of working people, and to expose the
> Democrats and Republicans as the frauds and bigots that they are."
> -- PSL presidential candidate Gloria La Riva
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> "We call for the immediate removal of all U.S. and foreign forces from Iraq.
> This is a rich man's war, but it's the working class who is made to fight it
> abroad and suffer its effects here at home. The war must end now."
> -- PSL vice presidential candidate Eugene Puryear
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> Michael Prysner for Congress (22nd District, Florida)
> Iraq war veteran running as PSL candidate
> Prysner joined the U.S. Army at age 17. Immediately after graduating high
> school in 2001, he shipped off to basic training in Fort Sill, Okla. He then
> attended a military academy at Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Prysner was assigned to
> the 10th Mountain Division, based in New York.
> In March 2003, Prysner was deployed to northern Iraq. He remained there for
> 12 months. Over time, Prysner developed anti-war views and in 2005 he began
> organizing against the war. He was a volunteer for the March 17, 2007,
> National March on the Pentagon that drew tens of thousand of protesters. At
> the Sept. 15 March on Washington, Prysner was arrested as part of the
> contingent of veterans that participated in the mass die-in at the head of
> the march. Prysner has become a powerful anti-war commentator, drawing on
> his experiences in Iraq to prove the criminality of the war.
> http://www.VotePSL.org <http://www.votepsl.org/>
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> WHY WE RUN IN THE CAPITALIST ELECTIONS
> Workers are asked to vote every four years for who will oppress them for the
> next four years. The PSL's campaign provides a true alternative for workers.
> Our program is rooted in fundamental working-class interests: peace, not
> war; jobs and people's needs; equal rights for all; and socialism.
>
> We will fight for our right to be heard in every debate, we will go door to
> door, we will hold rallies, speak outs, protests, sit-ins and more to be
> heard. The PSL's campaign will reach out to working people and all youth
> with a message of hope, and with a message of real struggle.
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> GET INVOLVED
> Become a volunteer in PSL's 2008 campaign. A vote for La Riva and Puryear is
> a vote for socialism and liberation, and against capitalist war, racism,
> bigotry and exploitation. Become an advocate for people's rights and
> revolutionary change!
>
> VISIT VotePSL.org: http://www.VotePSL.org <http://www.votepsl.org/>
> Sign up to receive updates: http://www.pslweb.org/VotePSLsignup
> Volunteer: http://www.pslweb.org/VotePSLvol
> Donate: http://www.pslweb.org/VotePSLdonate
> Join the PSL: http://www.pslweb.org/VotePSLjoin
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