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KRISTEN BREITWEISER, LIKE HER HUSBAND RON, VOTED for George W. Bush in 2000. Far from being any kind of activist, she didn't know her Congressman's name before Sept. 11, 2001, the day her husband died on the 92th floor of the World Trade Center's Tower 2. But she knows her way around politics now. It has taken her three years to get on an airplane, but she did it on Sept. 22, the day before the state of Iowa started accepting absentee ballots. To mark the occasion, the John Kerry campaign was holding a women-and-security...
When long-time liberal activist and author Paul Rogat Loeb faced an audience of the Cambridge Forum at First Parish Church Monday night, its meagerness appeared to confirm one of his primary concerns: When citizens feel politically powerless, apathy is tempting...
Similarly, in imperialist Zambia, when a law stipulated that a Black person shopping in a White store must have their merchandise handed out to them through a window, one local activist bought a Land Rover and insisted on driving it through the window, legally destroying a wall of the store and making a leap for the civil rights movement. This last example elicited an appreciative laugh from the small crowd...
...barnyard politics at the packed JFK Jr. Forum last night, as activist Ralph Nader faced a rowdy crowd while defending his third-party candidacy in the upcoming presidential election...
...longtime consumer and labor activist, Nader continued his anti-corporate theme by bashing both parties for their ignorance of workers’ issues and allegiance to corporate influence. He said Americans are “prisoners” of an institutionalized two-party system in which parties feel that “they own the voters,” and rely on “hereditary” party loyalty. He defended himself against repeated accusations that he was playing a spoiler...