Category — Election 09

Statement by F.I.S.T (Fight Imperilism, Stand Together)
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The election of Sen. Barack Obama as the first Black U.S. president is historic. No amount of cynicism can erase that fact.

Even more historic were the great throngs of people who stood outside in large crowds and in packed arenas, churches, bars, community centers, union halls and homes. In Chicago, hundreds of thousands flooded Grant Park. In Harlem, N.Y., thousands cheered as they watched the election results on a massive screen. After the victory was announced the crowd erupted in applause and cheers. Cars honked, children ran and yelled, “We have a Black president! We deserve this! We deserve this!” [Read more →]

A thought for anyone who voted today outside of the twin parties.

‘I’d Rather Vote for what I want and not get it than vote for what I don’t want and get it.’  …Eugene Debs.

In the days leading up to the U.S. presidential elections we have not seen the sort of massive drops in the stock market that were daily occurances in previous weeks. Some corporate media have actually begun to talk about loosening of credit. the impact of the reduction in the prime lending rate, and maybe it won’t all be so bad after all.Don’t believe it.

Take a look at the business pages. That’s the one place in the corporate media where you can expect to read the truth, or at least the truth as understood by those who continue to believe that capitalism really is the only viable economic system. [Continued at Two Good Hands]

Please report any concerns about voter suppression or elections fraud to Voter Action at 1-866-MY-VOTE-1.

For anyone who is considering a write in vote in the upcoming election here is the official way to do it from the Secretary of the State.

1. To write -in a candidate find the line provided for write-in votes.

2. Fill in the oval corresponding to the office sought by the candidate.

3. Write the name of the eligible candidate on the blank space.

4. BE CAREFUL, do not write on the dashes on the edge of the ballot.

To view a video of a voting demonstration click here.

NO ALLIANCE WITH RIGHT WING BIGOTS!! 

Riding by the house today of a person that belongs to the Green Party or a fellow traveler of that party I noticed a sign on his lawn to VOTE YES on the question, “Shall there be a Constitutional Convention to amend or revise the Constitution of the State?” Needless to say I was shocked because I always thought this man was a okay person, he hangs around with those who are considered to be hip intellectuals and with a progressive city council person, attends anti-war rallies, and so on and so on. So maybe its the neighbors sign that got placed in his yard by mistake I say to myself.  If I am wrong here correct me. But Please Come on Greens its only fair to let a good number of us who would perhaps vote for you know where you stand. Are you just one more Con Con man? 

 I did a little research and found this on Ballotpedia.org [Read more →]

The enormity of the economic crisis has gotten the attention of the media and candidates while the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan rage on. There were many reasons to end these conflicts and bring the troops home, now we can no longer afford it. The U.S. economy has serious problems that shake it to its foundation. The economy cannot be given the attention it needs unless we end these wars and invest in America. [Read more →]

To hear this song www.everclearonline.com

Jesus Christ didn’t have blue eyes or blond hair
He looked just like all those people that you want to kill
Spin your hell into a heaven you can sell
Make it look like California with a bible belt
Jesus didn’t look like the boy next door
Unless you live in Palestine
I wonder what you mean by the golden rule
I think it is a scary play on words
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I found this over at Queer Today.com. You will not believe your ears. Now this isn’t way down south in Dixie but in Ohio. We can bet if it were a LGBT person running for president that we would be hearing even worse. Thanks to Queer Today.com for finding this video and publishing it. We publish it here as a reminder of what we are all up against. So here goes Footage from a Palin Rally. For more good readings and interesting video’s click here for Queer Today.com.

Checked with Mike DeRosa yesterday and he told me that McKinney and Clemente are write-in candidates in Connecticut.

To read more: http://www.votetruth08.com/.  

Green candidates are running in all of Connecticut’s Congressional Districts this year. Click on name or photo to learn more:

Stephen Fournier First District

Scott Deshefy Second District

Ralph Ferrucci Third District

Richard Duffee Fourth District

Harold Burbank Fifth District

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Below is an email i sent in to a good friend of mine in response to eve ensler’s article about sarah palin that he had forwarded to me. i copy and pasted the original article (and a link to it) at the end of this post. my response is as follows:

I have some problems with eve ensler’s article, and with her in general.

as the woman who started vday and wrote the vagina monologues, it may seem odd at first to critique her for these things, but many have nonetheless.

first off, she thinks there’s some universal “sisterhood”, like simply because women have vaginas (this is of course also debatable from a queer/pomo-sexual perspective but id rather not get into that right now) that we have some connection. that’s called essentialism- and that is something feminism needs to move past, at least in my opinion and praxis. [Read more →]

Anouncement from Todd Vachon, Chairman of the Socialist Party of CT. 

I’m writing today to announce the Socialist Party candidates that will have write-in status for the November 4^th elections in Connecticut . Brian Moore and Stewart Alexander are the SPUSA candidates for President and Vice President respectively. You can learn more about these candidates and their campaigns at http://www.votesocialist.org/ and http://www.votebrianmoore.com/.

Todd Vachon will also have write-in status as a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in District 2.  You can learn more about this campaign at http://www.votevachon.com/.  [Read more →]

In our continuing coverage of the elections 09- QWB received this wonderful little essay. How sad and true. 

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

·Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
·Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded. [Read more →]

If you do, COME OUT, COME OUT, COME OUT

Start:Oct 1, 2008 6:00p
End:Oct 1, 2008 8:00p
Location: New Haven, Connecticut

The New Haven Gay & Lesbian Community Center will host a statewide discussion focused on platform issues in the presidential election as it relates to Connecticut’ s gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Speakers during the evening will include Christopher Healy, Chairman of the Connecticut Republicans, and Nancy DiNardo, Chairwoman of the Connecticut Democrats.

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Statement from the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation candidates Gloria La Riva and Eugene Puryear.

Since its inception, U.S. capitalist society has been marked by extreme racism. This has been the predominant tool used by a tiny class of super-rich capitalists to keep the exploited, divided and fighting each other. That has been true since the beginning of slavery in the United States in 1607 and continued with the evolution of industrial capitalism. That system allowed the ultra-rich to grow richer and kept a section of the white workers functioning as their pawns. The aim of racism is to divide and weaken the working class, derive super-profits from the lowest paid workers and force down the wages of all workers. [Read more →]

RNC finale: Unprecedented police riot against peaceful protesters & journalists

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As more and more information surfaces here in the Twin Cities—beyond the news or more raids, mass arrests, brutality, etc—I cannot help but feel like I am taking a step back to see a more complete, more startling picture than what I had previously seen, and I know I am not alone in this.

The first revelation, ironically, was that the seemingly gargantuan forces at work to bring the streets of St. Paul to a standstill were little more than a determined core of militants, who were admirably committed but desperate enough to create a facade that victory was all but certain, in the hopes that such blind optimism would bring forth a cascade of young anarchists to flood the streets—not so dissimilar from the posture of the Weathermen when they were promoting their national action, known later as the Days of Rage. There were, however, hundreds of militants who were both tactical and disciplined in their efforts, but this could not substitute for the shortcomings of the organizational model being utilized. This is the most obvious thing that one is struck by when assessing the situation on the ground, but this simple truth is perhaps inconsequential compared to what is becoming more and more evident. [Read more →]

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The RNC: Evenings in Far-Right Bizarro World

By Steven Wishnia
September 4, 2008 | Posted in IndyBlog | Email this article

By Steven Wishnia

Like a septic-tank explosion, the Republican National Convention had to be seen to be believed.

These people are not just mad corporate-imperial cowboys and religious fanatics obsessed with policing other people’s sex lives. In hours of prime-time TV, they offered scarcely a single idea or policy to the American people. Instead they endlessly repeated the story of John McCain’s imprisonment by the Vietnamese and slung junior-high-school insults at the Democrats. Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin — her pregnant teenage daughter and shotgun-affianced son-in-law-to-be kept safely offscreen — spoke for half an hour before she mentioned a single actual issue.

In their world, it’s unpatriotic to say the country’s in a recession. There’s no such thing as global warming. We’re winning the Iraq war. And you call someone a “community organizer” in the same sneering tones a sexually insecure seventh-grade boy would use to say “interior decorator.”

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The RNC Welcoming Committee wants to say thank you to all who have stood with us through these challenging days, to all who have faced the brutal attacks and repressive intimidation of the police, and have still gone back to the streets. Thanks to all who have made calls, sent emails, donated money, and expressed your outrage at these brutal attacks.

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In Sarah’s head is more than air!

Thanks to Diana for this piece.

If you’ve been following the news at http://twincities.indymedia.org you’ll know that the various forces of the state here are doing everything in their power to intimidate and eliminate all threats, real and perceived. While they may or may not take us seriously as a legitimate threat to the smooth-flow of the theatrics inside, it is obvious that we are a clear and present danger to maintaining their dominant narrative in the public eye. The cold and calculating targeting of independent media with harassment, detention, seizure of property, etc., make it all too clear that any journalist that is not “on message” is persona non grata in the Twin Cities. 

On the flip-side, during every raid on activist spaces in the last 36 hours, Fox News has been conveniently on the scene before any other media—indy or corporate—even knew anything had happened yet. This brings new weight to the question, “if this were state-controlled media, how would it look any different?” All of this is happening right here in the “heartland” of the United States in the immediate wake of identical behavior on the part of the Chinese state’s repression of activists as well as members of the media who cover them.

But despite this despotism, at home and abroad, we unequivocally refuse to be terrorized into silence. We will not be written out of the history books by the victors, because we have no interest in losing. The state will never be able to control our tight-knit network of equals, determined to up the ante after these many months of tireless work and preparation. We will have no idea how this will all play out until after tomorrow, but it’s a safe bet that it is worth participating in.

 QWB received this for posting. 

This article is published for information purposes only.  

QWB members would Never consider voting for this person.

Yesterday was John McCain’s 72nd birthday. If elected, he’d be the oldest president ever inaugurated. And after months of slamming Barack Obama for “inexperience,” here’s who John McCain has chosen to be one heartbeat away from the presidency: a right-wing religious conservative with no foreign policy experience, who until recently was mayor of a town of 9,000 people.

Who is Sarah Palin? Here’s some basic background:

• She was elected Alaska ’s governor a little over a year and a half ago. Her previous office was mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. She has no foreign policy experience.¹
• Palin is strongly anti-choice, opposing abortion even in the case of rape or incest.²
• She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000. ³
• Palin thinks creationism should be taught in public schools.⁴
• She’s doesn’t think humans are the cause of climate change.⁵
• She’s solidly in line with John McCain’s “Big Oil first” energy policy. She’s pushed hard for more oil drilling and says renewables won’t be ready for years. She also sued the Bush administration for listing polar bears as an endangered species—she was worried it would interfere with more oil drilling in Alaska.⁶
• How closely did John McCain vet this choice? He met Sarah Palin once at a meeting. They spoke a second time, last Sunday, when he called her about being vice-president. Then he offered her the position.⁷

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Article re-printed from Freedom Socialist, Voice of Revolutionary Feminism. August-September 2008.  

Candidacy marks a turning point in U.S. race relations and a savvy move by corporate elite 

Barack Obama. Crowds of everyday people flock to hear his song of change. Young people see him as the fulfillment of their multiracial ideals. Wall Street isn’t advertising it, but they back him too — with megabucks. These contradictory constituencies can’t both be satisfied. In a time of economic and political crisis, understanding what Obama’s candidacy means, and what he can and can’t deliver, is a matter of survival for workers and the poor. [Read more →]

For the next 2 months the spectacle of main stream media sending forth carrion crows to pick off remaining morsels of meat from the corpses of Republican and Democrat parties will be presented.

These will be endless attempts at manufactured meaning being torn from the meagre pieces of meat on these antique bones.

Mark D. Snyder our comrade and friend over at QueerToday.com has posted a clip from Face Off.  In the clip Rachel Maddon highlights John McCain’s nine houses, his very expensive shoes while bringing up the the point about the scrutiny of  Barack Obama by the news media and others compared to the scrutiny of John McCain. Check it out here.  Thanks Mark for this piece.

The brilliance of McCain shines through each and every day of his pitiful life. Today he went to the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant near Monroe, Michigan (not far from Detroit) to espouse the benefits of Nuclear Energy and made the brilliant statement (regarding nuclear power): “I knew it was safe then (when he was in the Navy) … I know it’s safe now.” I can only surmise that this president wannabe fool is a total idiot when it comes to historical facts (and of course most things he says confirms this) for in 1966 the Fermi 1 reactor suffered a partial fuel meltdown! Or perhaps he wasn’t tuned into Gil Scott-Heron’s powerful song “We Almost Lost Detroit” or guess he wasn’t rapping to MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy whose first album was No NUKES!). I have pasted just a sampling of Gil Scott-Heron’s song below:

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By Syantani Chatterjee, Reuters, Wed Jul 23, 1:17 AM ET

Single mother Mary White worked as a sales clerk until the bank foreclosed on the home she rented.

Tossed out on the street with her six boys, she lost her deposit and her job. Now she is revved up to vote in November. “My situation is going to make me want to vote even more,” she said.

“I want to say that this should not be happening to people in America, and I am very angry and upset about it.” [Read more →]