BALL, JARED

Website:

http://www.voxunion.com/jaredball/

Jared Ball

Jared Ball has withdrawn from the race, and supports Cyhthia McKinny. See statement on his website.
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ATTENTION: OUR ALLIES OF CULTURE AND CONSCIOUS!

This coming Monday, September 10th 2007 there
will be a 'Meet and Greet'
fellowship/information/fundraising event at
Sangha in Takoma Park, MD to support prominent
nationally recognized progressive Scholar,
Educator, Journalist, Pacifica Radio talk show
host, and DC activist Dr. Jared Ball's campaign
effort (http://www.jaredbforpresident.com) to
earn him the 2008 Green Party Presidential
Nomination.

This event will take place between the hours of
7-10pm at well known and much beloved Sangha Fair
Trade store , located at
7014 Westmoreland Ave, Takoma Park, MD, on the
eve of it's final day of business in Takoma Park.
We want to extend a very special and hearty
'Thank you!' to Jennifer for opening up her doors
and publicly supporting the Jared Ball for
President: "Don't Hate in 08!" campaign!

Green Party of Maryland co-chair Rob Savidge, and
Takoma Park resident Dave Zirin (nationally
respected Progressive Sportswriter, SLAM Magazine
columnist, Nation Magazine contributor, and award
winning author) will be speaking briefly at this
event.

Entertainment services will be provided by DJ
Eurok's Upset The Set Up! community initiative
(http://www.djeurok.com), with special
performances by nationally renowned progressive
Hip-Hop artist/educator/activist Head-Roc
(http://www.head-roc.com). Light food and wine
will be served throughout the evening until
supplies last.

We invite the entire DC, MD, and VA regional
Progressive community to experience the Capitol
Resistance styled political, social, and economic
information presentations that Dr. Ball and
Head-Roc have been delivering around the country!

For more information on this event, or to find
out how you can join the Jared Ball for
President: "Don't Hate in 08!" campaign please
contact us at capitolresistance@gmail.com.

See you on Monday! THANK YOU!

Head-Roc
Cultural Outreach Coordinator
Jared Ball for President Green Party Nomination
Campaign Committee
(http://www.jaredbforpresident.com) (http://www.JaredBall.com)

BROWN, ELAINE

ELAINE BROWN WITHDRAWS
FROM GREEN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL RACE

E Brown

Renounces Green Party Membership
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OPEN STATEMENT TO THE GREEN PARTY

As of today, I am no longer a candidate for the Green Party nomination for president of the United States, and I hereby resign from all affiliation with the Green Party. I believe the leadership of the Green Party of the United States has been seized by neo-liberal men who entrench the Party in internecine antagonisms so as to compromise its stated principles and frustrate its electoral and other goals. They have made it impossible to advance any truly progressive ideals or objectives under the umbrella of the Green Party, and, thus, rendered it counterproductive for me to go forward as a Green Party candidate or member.

I believe this small clique that has captured control of the Party has transformed it into a repository for erstwhile, disgruntled Democrats, who would violate the Party's own vision and sabotage the good will and genuine commitment of the general membership. Indeed, these usurpers foster a reactionary agenda, supporting partisans in and backers of the Bush wars and disavowing the Party's more progressive tenets in favor of promoting high-profile participation in the politics of the establishment.

This became clear to me almost from the moment I announced my candidacy in February of 2007. I intended using my campaign to bring large numbers of blacks and browns into the Party, particularly from the hood and the barrio-as would come to be reflected in the lists of supporters and delegates I've submitted in connection with my candidacy. As I asserted I would use the respect I enjoyed as a former leader of the Black Panther Party to do so, some in the hierarchy seemed utterly fearful of the prospect of a massive influx of blacks and browns into the Green Party. Soon, there was wide circulation of false rumors that I was a one-time "government agent," which was intended to discredit my history in the Black Panther Party so as to undermine my potential influence.-And, since then, I have had to devote significant time and energy to addressing these lies.-What this effort revealed, though, was how the Green Party, while advocating "diversity," remains dominated by whites. Indeed, the Party is able to count less blacks, browns and natives in its membership than our national population percentages and
certainly less than the Democrats themselves.

In effect, the present Green Party leadership promotes a kinder, gentler capitalism, a moderated racism, an environmentally-sustainable globalism, which I cannot support. They are dedicated to the underside of the Party's platform, which falls short of repudiating the capitalist state, source of all the social ills the Party would address. They equivocate by promoting "an economic alternative to corporate capitalism and a socialist state," advocate a "re-formulation" of the IMF, NAFTA, so forth, and advance the institution of "stakeholder capitalism."

On the other hand, they demonstrate a willingness to override the best of the Party's platform. My sharp criticism of high-profile Party members' support for the "three-strikes" crime laws, the sole basis for the inhumane mass incarceration of people in the United States, particularly blacks-the repeal of which the Party's platform advocates-has been met with outright enmity. And, to divert attention from this and other critical issues, the leadership has employed chicanery in their promulgation of defamatory lies about me-which they finally extended to character assaults on my supporters and critics of their unscrupulousness.

It is my sincere belief that the Green Party as it now exists has no intention of using the ballot to actualize real social progress, and will aggressively repel attempts to do so. To remain in the fray or in the Party, then, would require a betrayal of my lifelong and ongoing commitment to serving the interests of black and other oppressed people by advancing revolutionary change in America.

JOHNSON, JESSE

Speech at GPUS National Meeting

Jesse Johnson

Jesse Johnson (Mountain Party, West Virginia) seeks 2008 Green presidential nomination. Speaking on plenary panel to delegates of 2007 annual national meeting of the Green Party of the United States. Reading, Pennsylvania. July 13th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMxgYnmdHfg

Jesse Johnson's website:

http://www.jesse08.org/

JESSE JOHNSON CAMPAIGN FORMALLY FILES WITH
FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION

Washington, 10 March 2008 - The Committee to
Elect Jesse Johnson formally filed with the FEC
today to officially establish Jesse Johnson as a
candidate for President of the United States from
the Green Party.

Johnson, up until recently the Chairman of the
Mountain Party, the Green Party affiliate in West
Virginia, delayed filing until this time as he
was engaged in securing the ballot line for the
Greens in that state. Lawmakers in West Virginia
threatened to unlawfully withhold the ballot line
due to the Mountain and Green Parties having
dissimilar names - a practice which was not
applied when considering, for example, the
Democrat-Farmer- Labor Party of Minnesota.

In accordance with the opinion as cited by the
Secretary of State, Johnson would have been the
only Green candidate able to run for President in
West Virginia, due to his status in the Mountain
Party. "In acting as he did, Jesse Johnson placed
his party before himself," said co-campaign
manager Joel Brown.

Jesse and his entire campaign staff are
enthusiastic to hit the campaign trail.

"Having fulfilled my promise to deliver our West
Virginia ballot line, I look forward to running a
vigorous and transformational campaign for
President with the Green Party emphasizing party
growth and expansion," Johnson, a seasoned
campaigner and candidate for Governor of West
Virginia in 2004 and U.S. Senator in 2006, said.
"Green values are the values of American
citizens. I intend to gain their votes by
defending our Constitution and our environment
passionately, protecting the jobs and families of
working-class Americans through sensible trade
and health care policies, and ending not only the
war in Iraq, but war as a means of foreign policy
as well as the unforgivable bedrock of our
economy."

More information on the Johnson campaign may be
found online at http://www.jesse08. org

Contact:
Joel Brown, 703 864 5199, joelbrown88@ yahoo.com
Steve Kramer, 240 426 3338,
scooter@the- exchange- us.com

MCKINNEY, CYNTHIA

From: hesco@greens.org (Hugh Esco)
Greens are very much a part of her broad-based movement
Is the Green Party ready for a McKinney Campaign?

Cynthia McKinney
Dear Greens:

I write this to our Party's leadership to ask whether the Green
Party is ready to serve as a vehicle for a Cynthia McKinney
Presidential bid.

I write this from the road on the way back to Atlanta from
New Orleans Louisiana. I traveled to NOLA with Congresswoman
McKinney to honor her commitment as a Convenor of the Peoples
International Tribunal for Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

While there, she was approached by International Delegates
from multiple nations often speaking through interpreters,
expressing broadly held hopes from their home countries that
she might lead an electoral challenge to transform our rogue
nation into an honest broker for peace in the world.

We traveled to New Orleans in a twenty-two hour overnight drive
from a Delaware event which ended a thirteen stop speaking
and fundraising tour, largely organized and hosted by Green
Party activists, of New England and the Mid-Atlantic states.
Our intent was to retire what was left of the $50,000 debt
left from her 2006 Congressional Campaign where, for the
second time, a malicious cross-over vote in Georgia's open
primaries served to turn her out of Congress where for six
terms she had provided authentic representation to Georgia's
Fourth District. When we started we still had more to go.
As we return home, although having made a serious dent in
the balance, that debt is not yet retired, but we thank those
contributors who are helping us get where we need her to be
for her full consideration of her options for 2008.

Having worked in her Congressional office on Capitol Hill, I can
say that her constituency stretches across 435 Congressional
districts and that the phones never stopped ringing with
people across this nation seeking a sympathetic ear on the
Hill in spite of their own elected Congressmembers failure to
represent their interests.

A few of you are already aware that I have for much of the
past year, worked quietly in the background to prepare the way
for a Green Party McKinney campaign. Early in that process
it became clear that there would be no such Green Party
campaign unless there were also a Black, Brown and Green,
Green Party McKinney campaign. No declaration would be made
by Congresswoman McKinney for our nomination, unless it could
be a part of a larger effort which was prepared to ride the
momentum being created by the Black-Brown Unity organizing
already under way, led by the Black Liberation Movement and the
Immigrant community. No such effort would materialize unless
it was a part of a larger effort to involve and engage Native
and Asian and African and Latino/a communities in a central
and meaningful way.

The biggest obstacle we as the Green Party face, to having
a role in such an historic and seminal campaign is the white

culture which so dominates our Party. Our biggest obstacle
is the impression among community activists of color that the
Green Party has no place for them at the center of decision
making within the Green Party.

While understanding the historic imperative for urgent action
which we face, Cynthia McKinney also could look back with
pride on sixteen years of service in publicly elected office.
She could choose to retire to complete her long postponed
Doctoral Dissertation. She could choose to have a private
life for nearly the first time in her adult life.

First in the Georgia General Assembly, and later in the
U.S. Congress, McKinney offered herself as a vehicle for the
aspirations of communities struggling for justice against the
corporate and public institutions which continue to undermine
democracy and the living and working conditions we face. It was
the poorest of voters in the Central Georgia Black Belt which
first sent her to Congress on a $25,000 campaign in the three
way 1992 Primary where we defeated the two Black candidates
chosen to represent the predominently Black folks of the old
Eleventh by Georgia's most powerful competing white politicians,
then Governor Zell Miller and then Speaker Tom Murphy. These
were people without running water in their homes. These were
people who faced Klan violence for their support of her.

As former Georgia Green Party Chairman, the Reverend Zack
Lyde often reminded us, the work we do is serious business,
a matter of life and death.

And as Ms. McKinney often reminds people, she is a student
of COINTELPRO, which she asserts did more to shape the
on-the-ground conditions faced today in the Black community
than any other single factor.

It was building black and white unity to challenge racism,
poverty and war which got Dr. King assassinated. And our
own tax dollars had a hand in that, just as they did in the
assassinations of George Jackson, Chairman Fred Hampton,
the Kennedy brothers and Malcolm X.

It is important that we not be naive about the barriers we
face, nor the risks we would ask her to assume. Even so,
the future of our nation and our communities demands that
we not shirk from this historic responsibility to offer the
Party we've spent twenty years building as a vehicle for such
an important campaign.

But to do so we can not sit on our laurels. Having forty or
even fifty-one ballot lines to offer will not be sufficient
if we fail to offer a place at the table for our partners in
such an alliance. And that will require that we step outside
our comfort zones, that we learn to operate effectively and
respectfully in the very communities we seek to represent.

As we were checking out this morning, in the hotel lobby we ran
into a former Green who currently serves in a leadership role
within the California Federation of Labor. Back in the day,
he worked in early efforts to build Labor Party Advocates.
He has remained in communication with those labor activists
who became frustrated by the LPA's refusal to challenge
its financial base's relationship with the Democrat Party
by engaging in electoral politics, and their resistence to
challenging the comfort levels of its predominently white base
by responding to the legitimate demands of its Black supporters.

In organizing now under way which has grown from last year's
Katrina Survivors People's Assembly held in Mississippi, and as
work proceeds for the Second Survivors Assembly scheduled for
New Orleans, December 8th and 9th of this year, growing momentum
has developed for a Reconstruction Party as an electoral
vehicle, described by Kali Akuno, Executive Director of the
People's Hurricane Relief Fund and Oversight Coalition, as:
a strategic instrument that will enable the Gulf Coast
Self-Determination and Reconstruction Movement to implement
the restorative measures called for by the Tribunal through
the institution of the state.

http://www.peopleshurricane.org/ed-blog/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Reconstruction+Party%22+Hurricane&btnG=Search

As reported that morning by that former California Green we
met in the lobby, the Reconstruction movement, and the old
Labor Party Advocates and a broad range of other independent
political forces have already issued a broadly supported letter
to Congresswoman McKinney asking that she consider carrying
their banner in an electoral effort for 2008.

I was brought into this conversation to hear his concerns that
the Green Party is not a suitable vehicle for such a run.
Even aware of the tremendous heavy lifting it has taken for
us to have our ballot lines to offer, he was of the mind that
autonomy and self-determination for a Black and Brown led
political movement was too important to risk for the short
term gains to be enjoyed by subsuming such an effort in a
predominently white Green Party.

From my past work with the Congresswoman, it is clear that
she has no interest in serving as the titular head of a Party
not ready to embrace its role of providing a vehicle for such
participation.

Ms. McKinney was clear, that the only reason she would
participate in a Green campaign was to support such a
Reconstruction agenda, including the agenda of creating
a framework which would honor the need for autonomy and
self-determination by communities of color.

Clinton ran on a Platform of naming a Cabinet which looked
like America. But images are not enough. We must do more than
colorize our Board photos. We must go further and build a Party
which at every level involves and engages, not just those Greens
of color that those of us who are white might be comfortable
working with, but those community activists who legitimately
represent the authentic leadership of communities of color.
We must be ready to operate in our discomfort zone. We must
recreate this Party so that these authentic leaders are offered

a seat at the table of decision making within the Green Party.

So I return to the question with which I opened this letter: Are
we ready as a Party to be a vehicle for such an effort? Are we
ready to open our Platform development process, leadership
bodies and slates to the leadership which would emanate from
those communities ready to coalesce around a McKinney campaign?

Because if we are not yet ready to do our internal work to
create a safe place where we can struggle together toward such
an outcome, I would rather tell my old friend not to bother
with next week's deadline for the California Presidential
Preference Primary. I would rather protect her from the abuse
and disappointment, than try to pretend that our state Parties
were ready for something we are not yet prepared to engage in,
as principled allies.

That question is left to us. And with the California Green
Party General Assembly setting their Primary ballot on the
weekend of September 8th and 9th, the window for responding
to that question is quickly closing.

Cynthia McKinney has offered a contact form on her website
where she welcomes feedback from Greens on these concerns and
regarding folks' thoughts on possibilities for 2008 in general.
Please reply at:
http://www.allthingscynthiamckinney.com/TalkBack2008

-- Hugh Esco, Delegate
Georgia Green Party

(Note from Chris: On the allthingscynthiamckinney website above,
in the audio titled "Nov 1st Statement", McKinney finally
announces that she will become a Green.)

Website http://runcynthiarun.org/
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FROM THE NATIONAL GREEN PARTY AFFAIRS LISTSERV:

According to the FEC's website, Cynthia McKinney has started
her presidential campaign committee "Power to the People".

Presented by the Federal Election Commission

MCKINNEY, CYNTHIA ID: P80004930
Office Sought: President
Election Year: 2008
State: Presidential Candidate
Party: GRE (Green Party)

PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE:
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ID:C00440289

Year 2007
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PO BOX 311759
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MCKINNEY AT SOA PROTESTS:

http://gpuspeace.wordpress.com/

MESPLAY, KENT

WEBSITE

http://www.mesplay.org/

Mesplay speaking at the GPUS 2007 Convention"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RzsfsFJS_QKent Mesplay

NADER, RALPH

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader has decided to run for president as an Independent, with Matt Gonzales as his running mate. Updated March 1, 2008.

Ralph Nader is not an official candidate yet, but there is a draft Nader movement in the Green Party.

Ralph's new Exploratory Committee website:

http://www.naderexplore08.org/

Hear Ralph speak at the GPUS 2007 Convention:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4586797401475004986

Go to the Draft Nader website:

http://www.draftnader.org/

Ralph Nader"s website:

http://www.nader.org

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The Case for Nader

By Howie Hawkins
October 26, 2007

A strong presidential campaign by the Green Party in 2008 could fundamentally change the political dynamics of the United States. More of the public agrees with the Greens than the Democrats or Republicans on the key issues of 2008: ending the war, single-payer health care, economic security for low- and middle-income people, restoring our constitutional rights, and a serious renewable energy program to address global warming and peak oil.

In 2008, the Green Party could establish itself as a powerful opposition to the two party system of corporate rule, so credible that it becomes an indispensable part of mainstream public and media debate on the issues. Ralph Nader is the possible Green candidate who is best positioned to realize this potential. He is still considering whether to run. Here is why I think he should run.

The Time Is Right

Voters are angry and ready for an alternative. The Democrats were elected to majorities to both Houses of Congress in 2006 to end the Iraq war. Instead of exercising their majority power to use the congressional "power of the purse"
to vote down more funding for the war, the Democrats have lamely claimed they don't have the two-thirds super-majorities needed to override Bush vetoes. They have attached plans for gradual withdrawal to supplemental war funding bills that they know Bush will veto.
The Democrats had their chance. The time for the lesser evil has passed.

Voters see through the Congressional Democrats' posturing and now give them the same dismally low approval ratings they give to Bush and the Republicans. The time is right for an independent Green challenge to both corporate parties that speaks for the majority of Americans who want to get out of Iraq and back
into our communities and seriously address the crises of health care, poverty, economic security, infrastructure, energy, honest elections, and our basic constitutional rights and liberties.

Facing a weak Republican field with a base bitterly divided between social moderates and conservatives, the leading Democratic residential contenders are already running to the right, offering more war, militarism, and the whole corporate agenda wrapped in a "centrist, moderate" package on the model of the first Clinton administration. The leading Democratic presidential contenders call for "universal health care" through wasteful corporate welfare for inefficient private insurance companies when the majority of Americans support what Ralph Nader has long advocated: an efficient single-payer national health program.

The leading Democratic presidential contenders refuse to commit to bring all combat troops home from Iraq by the end of their first term in 2013, and continue to "leave all options on the table" concerning a new war on Iran. The
majority of Americans support what Ralph Nader has advocated since before the war began: get US troops out of Iraq and no war on Iran.

The leading Democratic presidential candidates address global warming and the oil supply crisis with more corporate welfare for "clean" coal, nukes, and the conversion food crops to biofuels that will raise food prices and still emit greenhouse gases. The majority of Americans support what Ralph Nader has long
advocated: an Apollo-scale program of energy efficiency, public transportation, and renewable solar- and wind-based energy sources.

The time is right for a high-impact independent Green campaign that the majority of Americans can support without reservation not a lesser evil, but a positive good.

Why Ralph Nader?

If we want a high-impact campaign that changes the political landscape in 2008, there is no candidate better positioned to make that impact than Ralph Nader.

Name Recognition: Ralph Nader has the name recognition to run a serious presidential campaign that reaches the masses of voters. Most Americans of every economic class and ethnic group know who Ralph Nader is. And what they know about Ralph Nader is that he always stands up for the little people against the big moneyed interests.

Media Presence: Nader has the public profile, record, and stature to command media attention, which he continues to receive today as a prominent public citizen. As a serious presidential candidate who could have a big impact on the debate and outcome, Nader's coverage will explode when he announces. An
historic reunion of Nader and the Greens in 2008 in a unified independent progressive presidential campaign to stop the war, meet the people's needs, and save the planet will electrify progressive activists, upset the two corporate party election dynamic, and compel the focus of the media spotlight.

Organizational Capacity: Nader has the capacity to organize and raise the funds for a serious national presidential campaign, as he has demonstrated in his previous campaigns. His many causes and projects over the years have engaged tens of thousands of active citizens across a wide variety of causes and many
of them will respond to the call for support in 2008.

Qualifications: As a serious presidential candidate, not the least reason to support Nader is that he is prepared and qualified to be president. Indeed, Ralph Nader is the most qualified and accomplished candidate for president in any party in 2008. As a prominent progressive on the national stage for over 40 years, Nader has been instrumental in the passage of more significant legislation than all the other presidential candidates combined, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, the Freedom of Information Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Community Reinvestment Act, and the acts creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Cooperative Bank.

To help advance the progressive reform agenda, Nader pioneered the concept of citizen action groups with lobbying and litigation capacities. He has instigated scores of civic organizations dealing with consumer rights, energy, environment, union democracy, investigative reporting, corporate crime, women's rights, racial justice, poverty, fair trade, corporate welfare, cooperatives, watch dogging the legislatures and government agencies, and ending the Iraq war.

Why Green and Independent?

The Draft Nader Committee is urging Ralph Nader to seek the Green Party nomination for two very practical reasons:

Unified Campaign: The best way to build a unified independent progressive campaign in 2008 is the build out from the ballot lines and organizational base the Green Party already has in all but three states. Having a Green and
another independent progressive campaign would destroy the potential for an historic electoral insurgency.

Ballot Access: The Green Party starts with 21 ballot lines already secured for 2008, a capacity demonstrated in 2006 to get on 10 additional ballot lines, and a realistic plan and goal of securing a ballot line for the Green nominee in all 50 states and DC.

Provided Nader seeks the Green nomination, the Draft Nader Committee is open to Nader running on additional independent party lines in states where presidential fusion tickets are legal and progressive activists in those states want to do so. One benchmark for the campaign will be the 5 percent vote threshold, which triggers federal funding for the 2012 presidential campaign. Votes received by the presidential ticket on all lines count toward that 5 percent. The state parties that might want to run Nader in addition to the Greens could
include the Peace and Freedom Party of California, the United Citizens and Labor parties of South Carolina, the Progressive Party of Vermont, and the Independence and Reform lines remaining in eight states from the Perot campaigns of the 1990s.

Historic Opportunity

We believe the potential vote for a Nader candidacy is much higher than 5 percent. Public opinion polls show that voters today are more in tune with Nader's views on public policy than they were with Ross Perot's views in 1992
when he received 19 percent of the vote as a third party candidate. Indeed, in the 2000 presidential election, Nader was arguably the most preferred candidate. An analysis of the National Election Study exit poll data by
Harvard political scientist Barry Burden showed that only 9% of the people who thought Nader was the best candidate actually voted for him. If people had not voted strategically for the lesser evil, Nader would have had over 30 million votes instead of 2.9 million and might have won the election, especially if he had
been allowed into the debates.

After the compromise of voting for the lesser evil Democrat in 2000 and 2004, and for a Democratic Congress in 2006, the progressive majority of voters are ready to rebel. The self-defeating lesser evil strategy yielded no gains for peace, justice, the environment, or constitutional rights. The peace movement
and the majority of Americans who want out of Iraq are ready for candidate who crusades for their demand. People of color are tired of decades of bipartisan retreat from social justice. Millions of working people are ready for a candidate who will stand up to the corporate assault on job, pension, education, housing, and health care security.

We cannot guarantee that a full-scale voter insurgency will erupt behind a Nader candidacy. We can only recognize the potential and our responsibility to try to make it happen.
Please go to www.draftnader. org and join our efforts encourage Ralph Nader to seek the Green Party presidential nomination.

Howie Hawkins is a Green activist in Syracuse, New York and a Co-Chair of the Draft Nader Committee.

Ralph Nader's Record of Accomplishments

Instrumental in the passing of the following legislation:

National Automobile and Highway Traffic Safety Act (1965)
Clean Water Act (1968)
Clean Air Act (1970)
Co-Op Bank Bill (1978)
Law establishing Environmental Protection Agency (1970)
Consumer Product Safety Act
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Mine Health and Safety Act
Whistleblower Protection Act
Medical Devices safety
Nuclear power safety
Mobile home safety
Consumer credit disclosure law
Pension protection law
Funeral home cost disclosure law
Tire safety & grading disclosure law
Wholesome Meat Act
Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act
Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
Wholesome Poultry Product Act
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) 1970
Safe Water Drinking Act
Freedom of Information Act
National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act

Founded or sponsored the following organizations:

American Antitrust Institute
Appleseed Foundation
Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest
Aviation Consumer Action Project
Buyers Up
Capitol Hill News Service
Center for Concerned Engineering
Center for Auto Safety
Center for Insurance Research
Center for Justice and Democracy
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Center for the study of Responsive Law - 1969
Center for Women Policy Studies
Citizen Action Group
Citizen Advocacy Center
Citizen Utility Boards
Citizen Works
Clean Water Action Project
Clearinghouse for Professional Responsibility
Congress Project
Congress Watch
Congressional Accountability Project
Connecticut Citizen Action Group
Consumer Project on Technology
Corporate Accountability Research Group
Critical Mass Energy Project
Democracy Rising
Disability Rights Center
Equal Justice Foundation
Essential Information
FANS (Fight to Advance the Nation's Sports)
Fisherman's Clear Water Action Group
Foundation for Taxpayers and Consumer Rights
Freedom of Information Clearinghouse
Global Trade Watch
Government Purchasing Project
Health Research Group
Litigation Group
Multinational Monitor
National Citizen's Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
National Coalition for Universities in the Public Interest
National Insurance Consumer Organization
Ohio Public Interest Action Group
Organization for Competitive Markets
Professional Drivers (PROD)
Professionals for Auto Safety

Public Citizen
Pension Rights Center
Princeton Project 55
PROD - truck safety
Public Citizen's Visitor's Center
Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGS)
Resource Consumption Alliance (conserve trees) 1004
Retired Professionals Action Group
Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest
Tax Reform Research Group
Telecommunications Research and Action Center

SWIFT, KAT

WEBSITE

http://www.prezkat.info/

Swift speaking at the GPUS 2007 Convention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHn2D789Wg
Kat Swift