Writing, Public Health, Gardening, Debate
I'd like to meet:
"Participators" -Citizens who want to work for and demonstrate thoughtful politics that fulfill human possibilities: citizens to assemble together — all ages, classes and backgrounds.........We have a moral imperative to take a stand, help rescue our besieged democracy, and secure our country and its liberties. To restore the sovereignty explicit in the preamble to our Constitution — "we the people," not for sale, can decide to displace the corporate controls that try to make "everything for sale".
"Leaders"-We have got a great future if we wake up to it in this country. And anybody who starts out in this country who thinks that they can't be a leader ought to think again. There has never been a greater demand for leadership, in all areas: media, education, churches, government, business, you name it. There is no long waiting list to be a leader in this country.
California Green Debate
Ralph Nader ballot access attorney Bruce Afran
Ralph Nader: "Things Are a Lot Worse than We Thought!"
Ralph Nader 2004 PBS interview
Ralph Nader on the Iraq War
Music:
Buzzcocks, Patti Smith, The Who, STones, CCR, Fugazi, The Clash, Born Against, The Boss, Propagandi, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Beastie Boys, John Lennon, Eddie Vedder
Movies:
An Unreasonable Man..
Books:
For A list of good books to Purchase click here.
Heroes:
"Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Abraham Lincoln, George Mason. These were people who I found very wise. And in college, the man I was really most impressed with in the 20th century was Alfred North Whitehead, the British mathematician and philosopher. Not to mention Lincoln Steffens and the muckrakers, which were my cup of tea."
Here are some folks I would like to have a conversation with:
"Jesus Christ, who had a very strategic sense of getting people to accept his beliefs. And Voltaire, whose wit and insight were quite contributory toward a detached view of society, which is important; you can get so immersed that you lose your perspective. Confucius, who condensed a lot of wisdom into a very few words, something our politicians could benefit from these days. And Abraham Lincoln. Franklin D. Roosevelt, see how he responded in both economic crisis and war time crises. The great educators. John Dewey might want to know about what happened to some of his followers and doctrines, and schools. Especially in the athletic area, Lou Gehrig, who is my hero because he symbolized stamina under all conditions of pain and success by playing 2130 baseball games consecutively. I never lost the lesson of his performance, how important it was to overcome, be resilient, and to stay with it, stay the course."
