Nader in California

Ralph Nader has failed to raise enough votes to qualify for the California
ballot.  However, the Green Party of California has until Aug. 26 to decide
its candidate and has the opportunity to put Nader on the ballot in Cobb's
place.  Beth Moore Haines, a California party spokeswoman, has said, "I
think there would be considerable cost to California in good will toward the
rest of the Greens in the nation if we did something like that."  Of course,
here is where the party is mistaken.  The *members* of the Green party
support a platform of peace and critical, uncompromised resistance as
embodied in the Nader-Camejo campaign; it is the party's *leadership* that
does not.

Greens and anti-war advocates across the country should contact the Green
party of California and let them know that they support the sober and
rational discussion of peace as an alternative to the violent hegemony
overtly perpetrated by the Democrats and Republicans and implicitly condoned
by the Green party's leadership and thus that they support Ralph Nader's
ballot access (and Green Californians should demand it), which would entail
such a discussion.  They should reject the Green party convention as an
exercise by the party's leadership against the will of its members, which
has undermined the resistance and message of peace.  Anti-war Democrats and
Republicans should join in this call to put Nader on the ballot in
California in response to the fact that not one of these three parties is
willing to engage seriously in the discussion of peace as an alternative.

It is out of compassion, rationality and moral obligation that we resist our
nation's wars and our nation's war parties.  There will be no cost in good
will toward the California Greens, should they decide to support this
resistance and thus Nader.  On the contrary, it is to "stay the course" that
would bear not only a cost in good will, but in the soul of the party.

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   http://www.cagreens.org/
   http://www.cagreens.org/locals/details.php

David

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