[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Series of Events to Unite people against Racist Mascots and Request of Co-sponsorship Thereof

[Corey Mattson]

I think we can all agree that elections won't now end the wars, that it will take a strong anti-war movement. I'm not voting for either Gill or Johnson because they are in business parties that have absolutely no accountability except to their paymasters. In Minnesota, Keith Ellison was an antiwar politician in the actual movement, who promised to vote against war funding, until he got elected and took his orders from Pelosi. It doesn't even matter what they promise.

I agree with those who won't support Johnson. He and his party are not on our side. If Gill were a politician who ran on a working-class ticket, a labor party or something like it on the left, that was accountable to a real party platform, he would get my vote. To his credit, he went against the party establishment supporting single-payer. Here in Blm-Normal, he disagreed publicly with MoveOn supporters in their support for Obama's health insurance reform, saying that it was bad enough to hope that it would not pass. In my view, from his work on single-payer, he counts as a movement activist, explaining his anti-establishment position on this issue. But, again, his running in a party only answering to corporate interests settles it for me.
--- Corey

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On Oct 15, 2010, at 9:48 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Nevertheless TJ is a reliable anti-war vote.
> 
> Oh, Israel's war does not count in The War.
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