[Mb-civic] Nader's Top Endorsers From 2000 Urge "Swing States" Support For Kerry

[Michael Butler]

    Nader's Top Endorsers From 2000 Urge
    "Swing States" Support For Kerry
    t r u t h o u t | Press Release

     Tuesday 14 September 2004

     Washington - As Ralph Nader campaigns in swing state after swing state,
a large group of prominent endorsers from Nader 2000 is calling for support
for Kerry in those states in order to oust Bush.

     Four years ago this month, Nader convened news conferences in several
cities to unveil his personally-selected "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee" of
leading supporters. Today (Sept. 14), more than 70 members of Nader's 2000
committee joined in issuing a statement that urges "support for
Kerry/Edwards in all swing states" because "removing George W. Bush from
office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election."

     Signers of the statement include Noam Chomsky, Ben Cohen, Phil Donahue,
Barbara Ehrenreich, Jim Hightower, Bonnie Raitt, Tim Robbins, Susan
Sarandon, Cornel West and Howard Zinn. The statement and a current list of
signers can be viewed at: vote2stopbush.com.

     The statement and list will be widely circulated, especially via the
Internet, to reach as many progressive or disaffected voters in swing states
as possible between now and Election Day. This effort is not coordinated in
any way with the Kerry Campaign or the Democratic Party.

     The statement reads as follows:

     Nader 2000 Leaders United To Defeat Bush

     We, the undersigned, were selected by Ralph Nader to be members of his
113-person national "Nader 2000 Citizens Committee." This year, we urge
support for Kerry/Edwards in all "swing states," even while we strongly
disagree with Kerry's policies on Iraq and other issues. For people seeking
progressive social change in the United States, removing George W. Bush from
office should be the top priority in the 2004 presidential election.
Progressive votes for John Kerry in swing states may prove decisive in
attaining this vital goal.
    €      David Barsamian, Author, Radio Interviewer
    €      Juliette Beck, California Citizens for Fair Trade
    €      Herbert Bernstein, Professor of Physics at Hampshire College
    €      Thomas Berry, Author, Dream of the Earth
    €     Wendell Berry, Farmer and Writer
    €      Norman Birnbaum, Author and Educator
    €      Grace Lee Boggs, Detroit Activist and Writer
    €      Blase Bonpane, Office of the Americas
    €      Theresa Bonpane, Office of the Americas
    €      Eric Brakken, Former Staffer, United Students Against Sweatshops
    €      Ira Byock, Palliative Care Physician, Author of Dying Well
    €     Edgar Cahn, Founder of Time Banking
    €      John Cavanagh, Director of Institute for Policy Studies
    €      Noam Chomsky, Author and Professor at MIT
    €      Steve Cobble, Strategist, Jackson '88, Nader '00, Kucinich '04
    €      Ben Cohen, Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's
    €      Peter Coyote, Actor and Writer
    €      Ronnie Cummins, Director of Organic Consumers Association
    €      Herman Daly, Professor at University of Maryland
    €      Iris DeMent, Musician/Songwriter
    €      Phil Donahue, Former Talk Show Host
    €      Mark Dowie, Journalist, Former Editor/Publisher of Mother Jones
    €     Barbara Dudley, Former President, Greenpeace and National Lawyers
Guild
    €      Ronnie Dugger, Co-founder of Alliance for Democracy
    €      Troy Duster, Professor at New York University
    €      Barbara Ehrenreich, Political Essayist and Social Critic
    €      Richard Falk, Center of International Studies, Princeton
University
    €      Jim Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
    €      Rebecca Goodman, Organic Dairy Farmer
    €      Doris (Granny D) Haddock, Senate Candidate, Reform Activist
    €      Paul Hawken, Author, Economist
    €      Randy Hayes, Founder, Rainforest Action Network and Director of
Sustainability, City of Oakland
    €      Jim Hightower, Author and Commentator
    €      Wes Jackson, The Land Institute
    €      David Kairys, Law Professor at Temple University and Author
    €      Ynestra King, Ecofeminist Writer/Activist
    €      John Kinsman, Family Farm Defenders
    €      Philip M. Klasky, Co-director, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition
    €      David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World
    €     Frances Korten, Director of Positive Futures Network
    €      Saul Landau, California State Polytechnic University
    €      Rabbi Michael Lerner, The Tikkun Community
    €      Theodore Lowi, Political Scientist, Author
    €      Howard Lyman, Former Rancher, Vegetarian Activist
    €      Joanna Macy, Author and Scholar
    €      Jerry Mander, President of International Forum on Globalization
    €      Manning Marable, Institute for Research in African American
Studies, Columbia
    €      Redwood Mary, Plight of the Redwoods Campaign
    €      Robert McChesney, Professor, University of Illinois
    €      Carolyn Merchant, Professor of Environmental History, University
of California-Berkeley
    €      Peter Montague, Environmental Research Foundation
    €      Gus Newport, Former Mayor of Berkeley, California
    €      Ruth Ozeki, Novelist
    €      Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
    €      Bonnie Raitt, Guitarist/Singer/Songwriter
    €      Sheldon Rampton, Co-author of Banana Republicans
    €     Marcus Raskin, Author
    €      Tim Robbins
    €     Vicki Robin, New Road Map Foundation
    €      Susan Sarandon, Actor and Activist
    €      John Schaeffer, Founder of Real Goods Trading Company
    €      Michelle Shocked, Musician
    €      John Stauber, Co-author of Banana Republicans
    €     Andrew Strauss, Professor at Widener University School of Law
    €      Charlotte Talberth, Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
    €      Meredith Tax, Writer and Human Rights Activist
    €      Studs Terkel, Author, Oral Historian
    €      Tom Tomorrow, Cartoonist
    €      Sarah van Gelder, Editor of YES! Magazine
    €      Eddie Vedder, Musician, Pearl Jam
    €      Harvey Wasserman, Author of Harvey Wasserman's History of the US
    €     Cornel West, Professor, Author of Democracy Matters
    €     Sheldon Wolin, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
    €      Howard Zinn, Historian and Author
    €      Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
    €      Jackson Browne
    €     Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-founder
    €      Bob Harris, Author
    €      Norman Solomon, Columnist

     Signers endorse this statement as individuals, not as representatives
of any group. A frequently updated list of swing states is posted at
swing04.com.

  

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