Ani, MeetUp, UE, Cuba Embargo
The following is an email sent out by the Kucinich campaign on August 27, 2003. You can sign up to be on the campaign email list at the official website.
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KUCINICH MOVES INTO 2ND ON MEETUP!
Our campaign is now the second largest on MeetUp.com. On Sept. 4, thousands of Kucinich supporters will meet each other in hundreds of cities and towns -- a great way to get to know your activist neighbors, including some you didn't even know were progressive! Sign up. It takes less than a minute and does not oblige you to attend every single month. (Thursday is the last day to vote on your favorite venue for the Sept 4th MeetUp.) Sign up now: http://kucinich2004.meetup.com
DEAN VS. DENNIS ON CUBA: More Embargo vs. Immediate End
The Kucinich position is clear: "Our policy toward Cuba has failed. More than four decades of a unilateral embargo and persistently hostile and aggressive rhetoric and actions from successive administrations have created only misery for the Cuban people and have hurt, not helped, U.S. interests at large. A Kucinich Administration will work for repeal of the Helms-Burton Act and the immediate lifting of the trade embargo."
Meanwhile the Miami Herald reported on Tuesday that "Howard Dean says he is shifting his views on the trade embargo with Cuba...Dean said he supports rolling back the embargo in order to encourage human rights advancements -- but citing Fidel Castro's recent crackdowns on dissidents, says that in recent months he has become convinced that 'we can't do it right now.'"
UNION SUPPORT
Yesterday, Dennis was a featured speaker at the Pittsburgh convention of the United Electrical Workers (UE), the legendary rank-and-file, progressive union. The Post-Gazette reported that Kucinich "won the cheers of a union crowd with a fiery call for universal heath care."
http://www.post-gazette.com/election/20030827kucinich0827p5.asp
While the UE has never made a presidential primary endorsement before, it issued a statement praising Kucinich and urging members to consider backing the campaign: "He is one of the stalwart leaders of resistance to the Bush attack in Congress. He has consistently taken the best positions on key issues such as the need for a national health care program, fixing our anti-worker trade policies, promoting labor law reform, opposing privatization and corporate de-regulation, and pursuing a peaceful foreign policy."
ANI DIFRANCO SUPPORT
Ani to Rolling Stone about Dennis: "He's got all the right ideas and I was just instantly struck by how different he is from any politician I've ever met. I believe him to be a really good man who has a real understanding of himself as a public servant, which is what a politician is supposed to be. He's not a self-aggrandizing strategist or corporate whore. He's the real thing."
HEAR DENNIS AT COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Dennis' wonderful one-hour appearance in San Francisco on July 31st has been heard on many NPR stations. You can hear it now at:
http://www.commonwealthclub.org/archive/03/03-07kucinich-audio.html
CAMPAIGN ARTICLES OF NOTE
-- An AP report on Kucinich press conference in Detroit today on blackout and deregulation: http://www.newsnet5.com/news/2437123/detail.html
-- A progressive critique of Dean by Norman Solomon:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0826-04.htm
DONATE AGAINST THE DOLDRUMS
Help our campaign keep expanding. These are the summer doldrums but our campaign needs cash. If you've already donated once or twice, please recruit a friend, lover or relative: http://www.kucinich.us/contribute.php
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