October 18, 2004 October is Koufax Pledge Drive month
Winona LaDuke (Anishinabe) endorses Kerry/Edwards
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinabe from the Makwa Dodaem of the Mississippi Band of the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota. She co-founded Women of All Red Nations (WARN), which is how I originally knew of her. In the last cycle she ran with Ralph Nader on the National Green Party ballot,
Sam Lewin has a piece in Native American TImes where he works as Managing Editor. Earlier in the cycle I was on a conference call with Sam and the editors of two other national Indian papers about the meeting between General Wes Clark (ret) and two members of the Swanton Abenaki Band Council in mid-December and the endorsement of Wes Clark by the Swanton Band at the end of that month. The links to his pieces are in a note in Triballaw.
I'll update with links to other National Indian media outlets as I come across them.
Thanks to reader VJ for the note in comments to MB's note that she will be missing in action for the rest of the cycle. MB's candidate, Elizabeth Trice, running as a Maine Independent Green, voted for the Nader/LaDuke ticket in the prior cycle, and when Nader came to Portland last week, went on-record and on-camera that she supports Kerry/Edwards and asked Nader not to seek votes in swing states. [NB. The Democrat in this local race wants to grow Maine's economy by ... (insert drumroll here) ... lowering the top marginal tax rate. Turn your hymnals back to page 1986 and sing "God Rest Ye Merry Ronald Wilson Reagan" in the key of b very flat, then turn your hymnal to the current page and sing "Joy to the Bushes, Let Marginal Rates Sink" in the key of Gee.]
Can you spot when the Dems set tax policy, and when they didn't? In theory (Ralph's) the graph is flat.
I think I caught that mention from 'Indian Country'. Speaking of which in regards to your mention of same in the An 'Open Letter (343rd)' post, I also had a comment on Kevin Drum's 'Political Animal' awhile back about the idiocy of those who glowingly compare the war in Iraq with the 'Indian wars' of the late 19th century in the West. Not an unduly successful venture for the US Army, right?
ELizabeth Trice sounds like a winner to me, she'd get my vote. Nader? He's proving once again that he's a megalomaniac in this reincarnation. There IS a real difference between Fantasy/Delusional George, and Gore and/or Kerry. Failing to see or acknowledge this is political malpractice and demagogery of the worst sort. I quit Public Citizen in 2000 due to his efforts. Ditto for Common Cause for their repeated pestering me to call on Gore to reveal his donors for the recount fight. It seemed utterly besides the point to me. Bush was proven to have illegally outspent Gore 5:1 in the post election battles. But that only came out in 2002.
BTW: O the Boycott Sinclair Score: I'm still trying to interest Janus in saving their 50K + investment I've made with them and a 15 year history with their group, to little avail. So Sinclair is losing, but so are some of the more stubborn Fund Co's. The more their rep. guy talked on the phone the more I came away thinking: 'Gee you make a really powerful argument...for investing in Real Estate'. I told them that too. You'd think 50K would mean something to some one, right? Nope, no statement forthcoming. I suggested: 'We do not condone or support any criminality or illegal actions by any of the firms we invest in, and we are currently investigating this matter...' That's at least acknowledging the problem, but I guess it just too much for them.
Was browsing through blogspot when I stumbled here
Posted by: wilson reagan at November 1, 2004 05:37 PM