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So this weblog has gone quiet again… That is cuz I am cycling cross-country from San Francisco to Washington DC… you can track me on our group weblog at Ride for Justice
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Greetings Mr. Pearce,
I wanted to write you an e-mail to try to understand why you feel that rather than trying to kindly guide Mr. Kerry towards taking a more progressive agenda, you instead feel it appropriate to disenfranchise voters like myself by guiding Mr. Nader out of the race and thus leaving me and other progressive voters without a real choice in this election.
The fact is that I cannot in good conscience vote for Mr. Kerry. It is not just that I consider him a slimeball, but rather the fact that I do not believe he stands for any of my values and has any chance of really guiding this country onto the path we need to step onto in order to prevent ourselves from slamming into the wall of unsustainability of our society. I also cannot vote, in good conscience, for someone who has been attacking Bush not from the left but from the right on the question of Palestine. The choice for me is not Nader or Kerry, but rather Nader or not voting.
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A couple of weeks ago I spent time in Connecticut and Massachussetts with the Wheels of Justice Bus, an awesome project of the Voices in the Wilderness, Al-Awda(Palestine Right to Return Coalition), and The Middle East Children’s Alliance. The Wheels of Justice is a 1978 bus that is driven around the country with speakers who have been to Palestine and Iraq. I just uploaded the photographs to the gallery.
It is no wonder that our country is the mess that it is — when we came to a high school in North Andover, MA, one of the students told us that she was had never heard from anyone who dared to suggest that *all* conflicts can be solved without the use of force, violence and war. These kids are completely shielded from the real world, particularly from the ‘destructive’ influence of any opinions that go contrary to the formal drums of war (and corporate war profits) of the government.
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