Reader supports Kucinich for president
Editors, Asheville Global Report,
Are we of the past or of the future? We are now in the
stranglehold of the past which is maintained by the Corporatists and
privatizers of whom our own government is the main engine. But corporatism
is unsustainable and will eventually collapse. The question is: are
we simply going to allow it to take us with it? Yes, defeat Bush, but
more importantly, defeat corporatism!
Presently, the “leading” contenders for the Democratic nomination
for president are, like Bush and Clinton-Gore before him, corporatists.
To be sure, they want to slow down its ever tightening stranglehold.
They all say they will “look into” the weaknesses of NAFTA;
will fiddle around with privatizing health care for “most”
Americans; will re-energize environmental concerns, revive cooperation
with the U.N. Basically, they are merely tinkering with the past.
The only future is a sustainable future, and Dennis Kucinich is the
only candidate who is facing the future. Why will his first act as president
be the outright cancellation of NAFTA and the WTO? Dennis Kucinich knows
the difference between the past and the future, knows that corporatism
stands in the way of any and all sustainable action in whatever area
that needs addressing.
One can choose to support a candidate out of fear of George Bush and
fear that the future is too difficult to bring in now. Such reasoning
only binds one more firmly to the past. It is defeatist from the start.
Putting off the future simply closes it off. As Martin Luther King so
eloquently stated in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,”
written to “moderate” religious clergy who criticized him
for not “waiting” for the future to come in on its own: “Human
progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability.”
Dennis Kucinich is the one candidate who knows this. He faces the future,
he welcomes it, he is moving toward it to fetch it in.
And by the way, he is the most electable candidate of the nine running;
once you meet him, you will know why. Check him out: www.kucinich.us
Orus Barker
Burnsville, North Carolina
Prisoner seeks financial help for subscription
Editors, Asheville Global Report:
Thanks for the free issues you’ve sent, I shared
them with many associates and many subscribed. I started reading theirs
for a while till they transferred. Being in confinement without outside
support, I’ve been unable to pay. I ask for temporary subscription.
I ask if you can put me on your advertising list for a pen-pal to seek
financial assistance and help for your cause. What I’ve said before
is still true today: AGR is my sole source of reliable media, by choice,
and you paper’s content only seems to constantly improve.
Thank you very much,
Edward P. Walsh
AGR report on Thessaloniki was flawed
Editors, Asheville Global Report:
I’ve always put good faith into the credibility of
reports in AGR. Last month, there was a report of a large protest in
Thessaloniki, Greece. I sent the AGR article to my friend in Thessaloniki.
She wrote back, shocked, outraged, and defensive. She said, “I
cannot believe how some media twist and change everything or blow the
facts out of proportion.” That was a blow to my faith in AGR.
She wrote further, “It was not 2,000 anarchists, but 200! They
make it sound like the city was a war zone, but it was just on small
area, in one street mostly. All the damage was done there, and for the
longest time the police only watched them! We were there… The Aristotle
University is where our daughter studies. The protest marchers were
very peaceful and only this small group of anarchist created problems.
The police could’ve stopped them right away but did not.
“It’s like some people in high positions want to make Greece
look agitated and out of control. The protests were well organized by
the municipality, free bottles of water and 5,000 tents provided for
free for all the foreigners, portable toilets put every 500 meters for
the protesters. Free coffee and ice cream for all the media. I’ve
never seen such hospitality in any other country.”
So I wanted to give you this feedback.
Thank you very much.
Gerald Niles
Editors’ note: This letter refers to the EU
summit held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2003. The figure of 2,000
anarchists came from an article from the Independent (UK) published
on June 24, 2003.
