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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Today's Quote...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.083513.24460@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 08:35:13 GMT
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- "That's what we're up against. Nothing short of a *fundamental
- challenge* to the rule of the rich and the super-rich and a [...]
- reorganization of this society will do. What we need is economic
- democracy. What we need is a situation where we have
- worker-community ownership. Community-owned enterprises. We need
- a situation where we have cooperatives, community development
- corporations, a _new paradigm of economic democracy_ where the
- people seize back control of the most vital thing in their lives:
- the ability to work and own a living. That's what needs to be in
- the hands of the people. And unless we have that we will not have
- a reinvigorated democracy, we'll have the same old same old. And
- people are sick and tired of being sick and tired in terms of a
- system that afflicts and exploits and oppresses the vast majority of
- people in this country. That's what we must be talking about in
- terms of a radical politics as we go into the 21st century. <applause>
-
- "And it's in that context that when you look at a Bill Clinton,
- <laughter> what you see is a Republican in George Bush, and a
- "republicrat" in Bill Clinton. Because if you understand what I'm
- saying about the need for radical fundamental change, then rotating
- Presidents is not what we're talking about. Just rotating Presidents
- will not bring the radical change that we need. Because as long as
- the Democratic party and the Republican parties are owned by the
- corporate elite in this country, then nothing ever will fundamentally
- change. There is beyond my rhetoric a difference between Bill Clinton
- and George Bush. But the difference is _incremental_, it is not
- _fundamental_. There is a *small* margin of difference. And at times,
- the small margin of difference makes a difference.
-
- But you reach a point in the crisis of life, the crisis of society,
- when small little increments of change will not do. It may do for
- me because I'm in the middle class, [...] and you know I can get
- along okay. But it does not do for those who live in South Central.
- It does not do for those who are locked in the ghettos and the
- barrios and the reservations in this country, who indeed are being
- afflicted. In fact as Malcolm X would put it, those who are in the
- ghettos and the barrios and reservations are catching more hell
- today --- the statistics tell us they are catching more hell! In
- Watts what do they tell us? There was a rebellion in 65, the people
- live *worse* in Watts now than they did 25, or whatever it is, 30
- [...] years ago. They're worse off now! Because we live in a
- society that neglects, and does not pay attention to the needs of
- the least of us.
-
- -Presidential Candidate Ron Daniels
-
-
- CANDIDATES FORUM, 21 MAY 1992
- OAKES COLLEGE, UC SANTA CRUZ
- LARRY AGRAN (DEMOCRAT), RON DANIELS (PEACE & FREEDOM)
-
- Transcribed by Don Fong
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- For more info about the Daniels Campaign:
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- If you have access to ftp, do "ftp pencil.cs.missouri.edu"
- login as "anonymous" and do a "cd LOOKEE_HERE/map"
- and then "dir *daniels*
-
- Then "get file.name" the files you want.
- Then "quit" to get out of ftp and the files will be sitting in your
- home directory.
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