Reader supports Dean for president
Editors, Asheville Global Report,
As Americans living under George Bush, I believe our nation is in
harm’s way. We now have less economic security, and the war in
Iraq has tarnished our role abroad as a model of democracy with justice
and co-operation.
One presidential candidate can turn this around. His name is Howard
Dean.
As Governor of Vermont, Dean reduced Vermont’s per capita debt
by 23%, created new jobs, provided health insurance for over 92% of
all Vermonters, and cut taxes three times.
Howard Dean has consistently stood against the war in Iraq, and believes
the United Nations should be given both military and political power
to resolve the conflict.
As President, Dean will adequately fund Social Security, protect the
environment by elevating the Environmental Protection Agency to cabinet
status, guarantee civil rights and justice to all Americans by protecting
a woman’s right to choose, giving equal rights to same sex couples
and supporting affirmative action and fair labor policies.
Forty years ago, on August 28, 1963, my parents attended the March
On Washington with Martin Luther King. Today, I want to take back
my country and restore the values my parents and I fought so hard
for.
Kendall Hale
Fairview, North Carolina
In recent weeks, the Asheville Global
Report has received a number of letters similar to the ones below
from prisoners letting us know how much they appreciate having access
to the paper while incarcerated. In most cases, they also pass along
words of gratitude from other inmates with whom they share their copies.
Currently, AGR’s prisoner subscription fund is tapped dry. If
you are able, please consider donating a gift subscription for a prisoner.
Rampage, and many other recipients in the prison system, will thank
you!
Prisoners appreciate AGR gift subscriptions
Editors, Asheville Global Report,
Yes, I have been reading the AGR for so long now that
I consider you all almost friends, even though we have never met nor
have even really corresponded directly. Coincidentally, I received my
notice of Time To Renew taped within the same issue which featured a
series of letters to the editor from prisoners who expatiated about
the educational and balanced benefits derived from their subscriptions
to the AGR.
I, too, once again, assure you all of the tremendous clarity and insight
that your newspaper provides me as well as a series of twelve other
prisoners with whom I share the paper in a set prescribed order. Another
prisoner currently receives a gratis subscription to The Christian Science
Monitor, and it is also passed around to the same 12 member Allred Anarchist
Alliance. There is not comparison between the two papers, but we all
feel compelled to read both for balance and for pure raw informative
content.
I implore you to consider renewing my subsidized prisoner subscription
so that we may continue with this important information network. I realize
that prisoner subscriptions are a privilege, and I endeavor to truly
“earn” mine by the activist and revolutionary work with which
I remain immersed, despite continuing oppressive dehumanizing conditions
and treatment throughout the barbaric Texas Plantation Gulag prison
system. If a benefactor is available, consider this my request for a
subscription renewal.
Thank you. I remain committed to a revolutionary idea: a sane, humane,
and sustainable world of which we can be assured will be vibrant, lush,
healthy, and beautiful even for our great-great grand-children.
In Struggle and Solidarity,
Michael / AKA “Rampage”
Iowa Park, Texas
Editors, Asheville Global Report,
Since approximately December 2002, you have been providing
me with free issues of your publication. And I would like to take this
time to express my extreme gratitude.
I have now been incarcerated for twenty-five months and 12 days, in
two consecutive county prisons. In this time period I have made significant
strides toward improving my life and I am now a certified residential
electrician as well as a certified paralegal.
I have also used this time to gain a new outlook on life and my eyes
have been opened to many struggles such as the anti-globalization movement,
the evils of a capitalist society, and the extreme need for prisoner
support/prison reform as well as the stripping away of every American
citizen’s civil rights.
Your publication, along with others such as Z Magazine, AK Press, South
End Press, Slingshot, and many more have played a key role in what can
only be described as an “awakening” to the true world around
me.
Due to the fact that mainstream media is controlled and run by those
who have the most need to control/censor what information is dispensed
to the average American, it is publications such as the Asheville Global
Report that are truly needed at this time. Not only do you report on
significant stories that are completely ignored by the mainstream press,
but you do so in an unbiased way and you spare the rhetoric that accompanies
other radical publications. You report the truth and distribute it to
others to do with it what they see fit; no more, no less. It is for
that reason that in my time here the officers I have shared some of
the reports from AGR with and engaged in discussion with have respected
your publication and have actually inquired on a regular basis as to
current events so that they may get another perspective on things other
than what is reported on CNN.
All in all I have nothing but good words about AGR, and I just wanted
to share them with you. I shall be released from prison tomorrow! And
I just wanted to express my thanks to you for your support. I look forward
to obtaining a regular subscription at my new address and offering my
support to you for a change.
Thanks once again.
In solidarity,
Mike Sedler
