Ralph Nader Speech in Portland, Oregon

this is going to ruin you were is ladies and gentleman i introduce you to the next president chris crane oh boy it's been time and time again we would be told wired teachers that this reform started in oregon those reforms are in order

the mission right from the recall right first day and was served recyclable here and so i grew up in first artist star citizen groups recently launched the public interest research group moment that started in iraq but in recent years you've had some rehearsals and oh i have to mention a poll a few days ago there were two corporate sponsored referendum on making initial prices more burdensome to qualify and an attempt to further restrict the rights of injured people have their day in court they were defeated so they overwhelm a ha ha ha ha now here's a war about you know with no audience like this one we tested and i'd

have to go through a lot of products for example how many of you have never been involved in a civic justice cause of any kind i never say so we can dispense with all kinds of practice all kinds of footnotes and details about the horrendous problems and injustices that our country does not deserve because of the concentration of barnwell in too few hands if you taken over our government largely global corporations we all know the names you hear on tv a lot time to monsanto's in the axons in the murk sharpened owns an overdose and the credentials and they are all states in the big timber companies you love so dearly here and now and vieux auto just like that propel goals and the other against your fear of them and again bigger and almost every historical figure in our country who is known in our history as

caring for people as warren about excessive concentration of power given to the commercial interests were not talking about small businesses were talking about the defining giant companies that seem to know no boundaries to how much power they seek they seem to know no standard by which they're willing to buy without vigorous opposition to the end and look at our own history the revolutionary war against king george the third was heavily opposed by the dominant business margins in the collings the recall torrance a new post and they lost and king george is third was given his exit papers and america is better as a result you think you'd become a business can we would've learned next day more vigorously oppose the abolition and easily every more of a cotton plantations and the whole structure of the

southern business interests not only saw him but predominantly they defended to the un says civil war the rights of businesses to hold human beings soybeans and they resulted in their efforts in horrendous strategies probably the greatest crime ever committed on the north american continent in addition to the genocide against the first native americans and they lost this is interesting warfare between the states in america was better for kids as someone who's very instructive that the dominant business community opposed as surprising as this may seem it wasn't just men are opposed to him his right to vote and not all men shouldn't generalize and not all business supposed to but certain industries because women were leading the fight to abolish child labor eight nine generals and dungeon type factors instead of going to school

or another safer and armed and they also were the leading edge of reform and so mobile women started the console it that about a hundred years ago they got the women's magazines talk about contaminated meat and inflation prices at the time didn't oppose women's right to vote has successfully women would vote against their interests are i am a business community opposed the rights of workers that to form trade unions and here's one by and workers suffer more workers have given their lives in the coal industry and because of black lung disease and coal mine has its preventable more workers because you've given their lives the last hundred and ten years now americans killed in war were too the masters because they want

to fly become please steal our oil and coal copper they formed opponents and opposition and detective firms. It was just awful but eventually lost and workers built the middle class by forming trade unions they also shorter workweek give us our weekend the next day and the next game the farmer progressive were all star and at eighty seven in east texas and six months these farmers dirt poor beleaguered by crushing interest rates and the bank's for their farm loans and crushing freight rates for their crops to market and they organized two hundred thousand farmers and six texas counties less severe pain one dollar do is what farmers like forty five dollars and then they swept his progressive political movement north and east and west the most fundamental reform movement

our country elected governors senators represent state legislators almost a president over the next twenty five years and who oppose the banks the railroads there are the big powers in those days really that another and business interests and eventually lost had to concede some of the farmers demands and the farmers got their own producer caught sooner own sober coming to protect themselves and i won the twentieth century you know there are a lot of business interests opposed civil rights they do want to pay you hope that you are providing <unk> that didn't want public accommodations residents of song their record well then to the laws are americans better off as a result they oppose the hormonal moment to this day if you stack up who's that were the opponents largely the power the cash and politics and propaganda there it comes amid the major

companies that don't wanna have their pollution restricted by force of law you know when you bribe them with tax credits they take their sweet time to toilet trained themselves as general motors i can transfer time they were losing an informal way they succeeded some degree you have less lead in your blood now because of the deletion of time travel and gasoline and the company's of connor attacked and it opened up whole new areas like a fast cutting of the editorial forced them the ozone depletion and global warming it showing up rather seriously but it's about accounting of the biotechnology pollution so to speak or their technologies raced way ahead of the science has to be governing this people like monsanto companies like monsanto and the largest have no adequate research to answer questions like nutrition disease connection and biotech crops

or the effect on other technologies like the migration of between such a corner and they have really looked and often to the molecular biology of about you know they consult with nicola farmers is going increase deals as an increase yields a telescope be cheaper it isn't cheaper we just marched when they saw here lots of unknowns including exclusion by the european market their crops which is troubling farmers league to a twenty percent decline here and gently increase profits at now what's interesting is the lessons here are here the less social justice movements arising our country's history they start very small number people every movement started with a fraction of the people in this unitarian church fraction

six women started the women's suffrage movement at forty six the farmhouse in upstate new york and you know are few people started modern civil rights will spark of rosa parks refusing to go the rear of the bus the six freshman engineering students black who refuse to accept a lunch counter but they set out to buy food and north carolina that one of the supreme court and the students won unanimous decision on public comment accommodations so one social justice movements start with citizen action they'd all start with large institutions that post are largely from business or garman the star was with citizens the second is what they're demanding all of them is a shift of far they're saying that the cotton plantations industrial giants the railroads of banks the company is a civil rights issue we demanded the auto industry there are not

gonna have unilateral total pardon design the automobile and doing a way it's killing hundreds of thousands of people are becky and millions of injuries are preventable and very discreet ways they decided that they were going to put seatbelts because they were going out about it that you know they were gonna have stronger door like to say we're going out and neck restraints and had restraint center work and have collapsible steering column all of them just pennies developed decades ago by their engineers patented no less from us and the auto safety moment basically said from now on you're not going to have the full decision and listen to that and two hundred and fifty thousand americans killed by rick displacing steering column see me yep cause of death from nineteen hundred to nineteen sixty four dollars will be a public decision process call the auto safety agency department transportation you're going to expose the law says if you engage in criminal negligence you don't recall cars you know the defective or you know put any known feasible safety features

to make reasonable standards of care when you so what carter human brain again shift about when the labor unions got the collective bargaining laws shift to power from employer to the workers saw all these are shifts of power the third interesting consequence is a man whose batteries was all and not only that democracy tends to be good for markets they tend to expand the opportunities for good business is not bad says and a lot of these companies that oppose the social justice movements actually ended up making more money never like the auto companies making more money in another like methanol bragging about all the safety devices it bitterly oppose assad and the sixties then output the money and the ads on tv and a late evening know you know the late evening television news thirty minutes nine minutes of those three minutes or so street crime one minute of artificial chitchat between the anchors four minutes of sports

four minutes of whether it happens frequently start thousands of miles away and bring it down to a local suburbs and temperature differentiation who are two miles apart many of the required animals story may be it medical the medical journal article and i had the temerity to say this is the news in portland oregon he's been willing to pay what they're using our property the public airways there the tenants were landlords they don't pay any fee for their license billions of dollars of lucrative corporate walther gave voice to these broadcasting companies and as tenants they keep us off our own property and they decide who says why doesn't it really is getting so absurd that the evening news is now very heavily notifying you going to find the

nonfiction soap opera and then you run day after day you live to new reporters is cheap it doesn't offend advertised so you take a year journalism away for the oj simpson trial really one of the great historic sites unlikely significant trials of all time high and then well when you run out that what you do well you don't hire more reporters to see what's going on in the neighborhoods to give voice to the citizen groups' trying improve their city or the region you look around and you see roy what do we do stereo rack on a john was a good news will have been reduced to going into the distance dc

is npr news that was one evening is what the ninos so absurd you know it's the us out that that's why we let me on set and we've got a recovery but the point here is that what's happened in recent years and are markets turned around it so the night after the corporation's robot on the defensive with the lower worker safety varma consumer legislation store they start consolidating their power and get that data first and money that funneled money to republican democratic caucus the last three weeks at a big republican fund raising dinner on these girls twenty one million dollars from the same businesses that last night paul twenty six million dollars in the democratic caucus and sea ice center and matt and walking dc presided over totally exonerated

make sure that congress gave up whatever leverage ahead and the chinese regime and on the multinational corporations and whatever opportunity had to give the seattle coalition a voice to fight another day against corporate global is going to devolve into a fellowship with other human beings in other countries that they shouldn't be required to work and seven thirty am to eleven pm for twenty nine days a year with the day early as tomorrow when the day off and if they make a mistake your doctor ten hours and they're making twenty to thirty forty cents an hour before the government takes some deductions from the solar fourteen and thirteen asylum are absolute certitude conditions at an end and your timberland shoes other produce on a wal mart products of their produce likely other produced by

phil knight take your grubby thirty million dollars the piano player cutting deals like that school districts in seattle cutting deals with pepsi or coke ago so because they say well a public will support public schools where they deserve to be supported and so we got it put a coca cola pipeline into our look it's a captive audience and cocoa decide whether they have any fruit juice or the more nutritious drink fruit juices that way the water recedes and nine teaspoons of sugar which protested to the school board we thought they were delinquent never be ashamed of themselves going on around the country commercialism sweeping the country every nook and cranny everything under these corporate

notices for sale is not everything's for sale our government is for sale our democracy is for sale our privacy is for sale our genes are for sale our workplace are for sale are informants for sale our schools are for sale our universities of once again to stop this to stop when we grow a powerful strong democracy movement in this country as bell it's really quite grow you can almost get a starter for the old days in the nineteen forties the ceo's of the top three hundred corporations paid themselves twelve times the entry level workers weren't there one to forty times when it is now four hundred and sixteen times the average ceo of the top five hundred corporations

america is now making a million dollars a month just two hundred fifty thousand dollars a week that's fifty thousand dollars a day not counting parks benefits when the saints housing expenses huge tensions that are far greater percentage terms in dollar terms is bree olson the companies well they really are and yeah dr michael eisner and two hundred and fifty million dollars and one year of running a cartoon cub company maybe that's why he bought abc you guys have to justify another two hundred million dollars at the pickup you know we fought a bill in congress a few years ago that was gonna preempt the state law and prohibit anybody who was critically injured from medical malpractice say a brain damaged child a paraplegic teenager from going into a state

court in getting anything more than two hundred fifty thousand dollars for a lifetime of pain self now there's a bill in the house was raided that doesn't mean they can get their medical expenses but for pain and suffering what's to earn fifty thousand dolls inflation eroding over fifty sixty seventy year expect life expectancy and you know it's like the frontier well you know a thousand people die every year from medical malpractice just in hospitals according to the physicians the harvard school of public health no practice in hospitals that's more than combine fatalities homicides more vocal person fire that the scene included inner city clinics sutter emergency rooms and a writer jesus you know at that time who is pushing for this bill and i looked up what he was getting and he was getting two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a week every week without any pain and suffering from your beer from your premium dollar see how cruel or hundreds of groups that was

like that you know sixty years we've documented led based poisoning for children are whole country's doctrine coming off of a crumbling tenement walls and brain damage so after two hundred thousand years yesterday there are now even now and we can organize our political economy to contain or guerrilla what they stay and the hundreds of thousands of crumbling tenement arms to preserve the brain power and health of children to three year old kids ridiculous asbestos as over two hundred thousand people died from asbestos since world war two started and the asbestos companies knew for years back in the sixties and the fifties in the forties in the thirties and it wants that it was connected with asbestosis necessarily all but they covered up until litigation started by diane asbestos worker in east texas blew the top off of it in the early seventies while we couldn't do anything about that either does it

really become apparent the more more people that a booming economy for the last ten years that leaves a majority of the workers behind the farmer labor data they're getting less dollar inflated dollar adjusted salaries and wages and they were twenty twenty five years ago working a hundred sixty hours longer someone without a conscience it is their son wrong with an economy that's been domain is reaching almost ten trillion dollars that can't provide universal health care coverage for all its people have every other western companies country does some third world countries we give foreign aid to do like taiwan resell your garbage recently in the stomach and is there something wrong with an economy were the top one percent of the wealthiest people have financial wealth people to the bottom ninety five percent

you really think that the one percent contribute as much to our economy as the bottom ninety five percent of all our kids about this was until six weeks ago bill gates is well was equal to the combined wealth in the bottom hundred and twenty million americans forty forty five percent of the entire population apart what that says about the great software imitator of redmond washington withers that the applications that the dominant ones that say about millions of americans who work year after year decade after decade anderson seabrook but firstly no not worth what it says is we got a very unequal political economy and unequal economy and on equal paul thinks that would stop to our car people are going downhill in ways that the popular indicators ignore because of popular indicators are very heavily right or a flat salary and corporate priorities like corporate profits

like gdp going to give you a couple of popular indicators ten years of economical twenty percentage of a growing up powering this country by far the highest percent the western world there's some countries was here essentially abolish trial barbara california is twenty five percent only condom forty seven million workers are modern thirty two million make less intent also know many of the five and a half five or six seven eight walmart time workers not a livable wage theft theft to commute even more and longer and have two cars into insurance policy and he just getting back and forth more they want to have to expand they have kids you know to sustain the house before they even use their their income for what we all think should be used for and that masters and why it's ok why you know you might or scissors thirteen cents of every

democrat republican party democrats won increase and don't wait for a wide are over two years the republicans want to win over three years and you know what it still won't be as much as it was the nineteen seventies in inflation adjusted dollars not even close if we had inflation adjusted no wage you'll be breaking some of the fifty cents now and as measured by the real dollar value of twenty five thirty years ago forty seven million people without health insurance and growing at a million a year sacking bad and it's getting worse homelessness affordable housing is at record levels while they secondary mortgage companies fannie mae freddie mac make record profits quite a conference costing terror attacks cast a conference here public works crumble in interesting how little effort there is to expand modern elevated personal mass transit the technology's mind blowing so excited is so excited solutions are countries on the show now

being applied because corporations don't want solar energy they want fossil fuels they want nuclear power they don't want public transit because they don't want competition the clogged highways that make just buy more cars mr trucks that markets by more costly and more tired universal health insurance coverage because eh it wasn't all countries will be able to make as much profit will be able to surround doctors and the nurses in and tie up their professional judgment they don't want a lot of things like pollution control like good heavens look of a fight that costly and then they use the words the environmental movement i guess i liked the company motto is more power to the people laugh and then woah woah woah puts it adds out great environmentally or their company's been performing as salt rain washes you know he's going to try to take over that so so typically the euro is you is popular indicators that represent the

interests of through whoever controls the yardsticks evaluating our economic condition controls the agenda and whoever defines crime in a way to exempt them from a controls our perception of crime if i say you crime welfare violence regulation what comes to mind street crime or riots street crime poor people lined up for welfare checks government regulation that you know we all grow up corporate suppose you began looking at the evidence far more people in this country are killed injured made sick by corporate crime and negligence preventable then straight crime does income thoughts hundred thousand workers die every year from preventable occupational hazard twenty six thousand people died from homicide is sixty five thousand americans died from air pollution epa figures and eighty thousand medical malpractice you got certain responsibilities

for the alcohol and tobacco industry hooking young people deliberately with all kinds of knives images the addict or whose executives get invited to the white house the addict or tobacco drug dealers don't they have some responsibility when they have systematically tried to get to all thirteen fourteen fifteen year old cousin off their welcome younger there for a lifetime that's important to know that we've got to change the situation here is how we can change people here and around the country who are dedicated to form a new political party that arises out of the citizen movement never forgets where it's coming from the green party's dedicated to that proposition that political reform and progressive political efforts must arise out of civic motivation and so that more mobilization and at the political structure's fuel and facilitate the liberation an organization to further political and civic candidates

and that's the sort of society were campaigning all over the country now in ways that are not routine word operating in front of people for a photo opportunities we're connecting with citizen action groups on the ground whether it's for pollution control public transit whether fighting stadium subsidies well schools and clinics in the same city crumble for lack of repair money you named the issue you know an issue and there are groups fighting the good fight we lock arms and it's important to do it that way for three reasons one you never forget we're coming from to hear always strengthening your political cause because you're marching shoulder to shoulder with the citizen effort and frayed you're more likely to succeed if you get elected to fulfill your promises he's re elected president without a very severe globalization and end up in the white house which is presently a corporate prison

surrounded by thousands of corporate lobbyist and under the heel of the wto and nafta systems autocratic governments and cash register politics ringing loud on capitol hill and twenty three thousand corporate lobbyists working full time for a corporate interest for beginners this is our government our democracy been hijacked by these corporations whose executives must have brains the size of pinprick because they don't know the lessons of history that the more justice is evenly distribute the more power is evenly distribute the more wealth is evenly distributed the court records of the people's needs and sweat labor the more prosperous economies become the more markets are less damaging the markets become to the environment to future generations you know when the ceo of the bills in history they know what the next quarterly

statement has to look like what their stock options that does have to do or that it's time to really change that this whole situation one million people that are gaining a hundred hours the year the volunteer talk and raising a hundred dollars can transform the green party in two major progressive victorious party at the local state and national level and us less time and energy that people in this country to vote to watching one am nfl football championship game you know no matter what label people put on themselves conservative liberal progressive moderate rebels they all share one feeling they're being stripped of control over everything that matters to everest for their own job being seduced by these corporate hucksters unbelievable marketing ploys director

little children separated from their parents signed all kinds of job programs job toys end up low grade sensuality in junk food and teach your mind a nagging their parents to come all exhausted from commutes in and are successfully detour down to buy a seventy dollars or ten bowl game but the game is continuing his billions of dollars in business here people feeling lost control over their government surreal and so i mean we've had a lot of history on that they feel they've lost control over their community which is fracturing they've lost control over their private information your privates and mail order of information data that these genetic information brought out even though corporate satellite companies are beginning to look through buildings to see what's going on they're losing control over their democracy most basic losing control

of the universities which are being corporate office three years ago we would never drain universes would become subsidiaries of american business joint ventures commercial projects heavy moonlighting twisting the curriculum into the vocational needs of corporations on the backs of tax dollars and student tuition downgrade in the liberal arts social sciences even controlling expectations than symbolic ecologist traits go it's what computer science you know it's around well what about literature this very interested that doesn't get me anywhere but what about politics and that turned on pot to which i replied that you're going to make sure that politics turns on you because that's a lesson of history it's been we all know that our country's not given a bus to the world where the biggest munition exporters

we got a huge military budgets nowadays because it was at the height of the coal or when the soviet existed which it doesn't exist anymore that distorts your federal budget from critical needs like public works for care in this country with all the public works it serves so many people are in dire need of repair oh there's not enough money not enough money for drinking water system improve there's not enough money from public transit is not enough money for more meat poultry inspectors to make our food say there's not enough money for inside attrition programs to get these four kids into nutritional mo they have a chance in life there's not enough money for affordable housing but there's forty billion dollars for defective osprey aircraft at the army and air force don't even want the marine scene to still want it but there's plenty of money for a two hundred billion dollar joint strike force fighter plane that analysts in the pentagon think is a ridiculous idea but they can't speak up because congress holzer purse strings and guess who has her arm around

congress is belly it's a defense manufacturers or the money to congressional caucus so we have corporate well first couple hundred billion dollars in that bustling bazaar of accounts receivable we call washington dc they've got plenty of billions of dollars from our pharmaceutical companies and then turn around and use government financed new drugs to dig out you mercilessly thousands of dollars per patient for drug treatment they got plenty of money for the munitions industries to privately export weapons third world dictatorships and they use them against us some day but they've got plenty of money for our license but that's because they get the power they got the car or your tax talk about the power more and more over the terms of your consumer relationships had never changed it i printed contract that every you know all these contracts rest of the sign on the dotted line and to reverse roe it about to seriously by a big household appliance you can pay

for to see biden time in chicago credit shuffle papers get ready say to resign he says on monday that it's only never signed somewhat degree you go to cheer on a sit down read the whole thing post on contract and i got my magnifying glass the mine safety eyes never happened before you know what's going on and there you sit down there's things you don't like to see what they do we wrote a book once someone in cars with a mottled consumer car purchasing a grim as a consumer rights matter we thought we would take another dealer to buy a car and let us know first night they sit down to a quixotic car dealer shuffles all papers so he works out this contract he's here i think we got to be on this car please would you sign my brain and you're the dealer didn't call police tied you see out only

one sided they saw it as another guy chase the customer out on with their economist at the news and so what we know it's wrong when other systemic we know we can do better than other great things for the future lots of solutions whether it's energy and housing and friends the day and tranquility and recovery over a long time so we engaged in a frenzied attempt for a modest standard of living ignoring all of the things are quite as important if not more important because a commercial imperative now as sort of political power than it dominates our horizons also completely we're looking at the world and corporate it they're looking through citizen science is that citizens caught those of you worked on since gazans know exactly what's entailed year it's rolling up our sleeves and put him in the thigh the great thing about a strong democracy is it brings the best out of people as if people that it doesn't allow these artificial

legal entities that void lloyd rather talk about any talk about corporate charters an artificial entities and so on they're dominating our law they have all the rights we have to have all the privilege and immunities we can ever heard and as a result you're producing records corporate commercial college it needs to be changed or you've seen the beginning here with that weighty stephanie talking earlier or is it you know sold about asbestos on he's running for the state senate and the larger lawyer mark that you know we know about royal back in washington like he never leaves anybody a low levels because he writes he faxes he's the consummate citizen who asked the important questions such as why should trojan nuclear plant be allowed to continue operating

he's won the first usa of course greco for you know others banded together we never thought they had a chance then one day the phone call ok yeah it's close and then the next day a phone god and said anyone america's so is are we roll out thirty organizes in the field and within a few weeks to leverage all kinds of volunteer help you could join as a volunteer our website is coordinator dot org or whatever dotcom doesn't matter there's a form you can fill out put in years expertise your computer this an organizer that super canvasser want to put our house parties to raise a few bucks or not taking packer saw one just individual contribution got all kinds of options the second you see the elaboration of art and you want information on corporate subsidies welfare my thirty five page statement before the house budget committee last june

is on the website and third if you want to encourage people not to somebody volunteer and contribute it gives you an opportunity to have those you don't use how many of you don't use the web seelye young people raising their hands and only kitty is the po box numbers years ago but slumber and i said yes that show called law and american labor called the notorious taft hartley love that and like twenty people clap them are over sixty five on the ceo underdeveloped our democracy is one the most serious constraint on labor union organizer passed in nineteen forty seven but republican congress is never know you think if we had a similar

law chokehold on business they wouldn't let us know every minute of the day now the post office box in one of our dresses nader two thousand po box one eight zero zero two one eight zero zero two washing dc to oh three six the other thing that we want to try to get done is in the fall already on at least forty five state law was heading for fifty were just cross the barrier in texas at kelly's we got there about sixty thousand signatures we only need thirty eight thousand we hope that the authorities don't pick at the signatures the way they do they're a couple difficult ones oklahoma north carolina just filed suit against a local of

north carolina's they squeezed the period of signatures to cut to a tight it's a worthy of a lot of ballads the national press that the fall campaign they're calling up saying can we journey with you through the states and those states where the nine percent in california it's busy the proceeds percent nationwide all without any national coverage of most people still don't know running but it's going to change we're getting feelers cellphone national tv they're going to beat the green party convention the three networks cnn says

cnn is doing more and more the present patients which is good because then you avoid some or journalist or spices some bark you're a little ahead of my time soundbite of crowd and the jackie speak in paragraphs several but you know we're all about were all about his legacy for future generations austerity or about our own self respect as forthright citizens or no bill justices gone through a day were circled the great work of human beings on earth or all about stopping this resignation of fatalism and you can't fight city hall or exxon syndrome we're all about no longer solely for the least to the words of two parties of the lesser of two evils as the evil of two lessons as heck and if we belonged to the content of classes in the top ten percent ordered pretty well

in this economy we won't accept some problems because we can afford to allow don't worry about improving the city drinking water system just buy bottled water <unk> thousand times more expensive than seawater but can't be bothered so the content that causes often acts instead of boys and they're the ones with the most employers to get their calls to return so let's challenge the content of glasses to take up their cities and cudgels and stop being quakers from the major problems this country just because they can accept that you know what the elk deer and formal racism devastating toxics were

poor people live we got a real job if you don't have a saying if you don't go not have to say if you're not going to say and i have to say they're going to continue to pay because you pay the most so we going to mobilize and on voters using more imports are going to bring out the non voters eileen are likely to keep people awake enough to trudge to the polls or you know george w bush he's a real reformer and compassionate conservative crowd i love politicians are desperately clinging to adjectives in order to legitimize the now it's been corporate welfare since may fourteen

by getting the taxpayers to build texas rangers stadium in greece is six hundred thousand dollar investment to fourteen million and sold out two years ago so anybody who says to george lobbied does nothing about welfare doesn't know george wu is a corporate welfare and poured out her more he's betrayed more of this written promise is in that great book in nineteen ninety two than any politician in modern american history but he keeps telling him that he's going to fight for you remember is their fight for you after collecting twenty six million bucks and so the sleazy is vested interest last night in washington dc let me ask you this who have thought about this long before you came here think that a major progressive political party can be built in a relatively short period of time we're not talking days or weeks

we talking months and maybe a few short years how many of you believe that and believe in the broad sense the green party agenda enough to be one of those one million people hundred hours a year raise a hundred dollars a year and saying hey you want to think about it a little bit more and how many of you don't wanna go to diana will democrats in you do you think that republicans are so were so you just don't want to get arrested on a raise expectation wobble and you're you don't want to contemplate a reversal of both parties get worse every four years and keep in mind that if you get near low and if you discussed of the political system you give them you know

you're legitimizing what they're going to legitimizing the downward spiral local politics in america and are going to turn around and keep telling you when you wanted to do the right thing year after year well this is what we're gonna do for you take it or leave it because you got nowhere to go well now we have somewhere a piece by the police when eastman it's been the pay to pay let's make sure their enthusiasm

in this gathering does not diminish in subsequent weeks and months so we get otherwise we're preoccupied and don't have enough to broaden our circle of friends relatives got acquaintances coworkers neighbors and pass the word spread the word and and talk up progressive politics not be in heaven and then engaged some serious marketplaces workers because you'll see that it'll go stay at ten and top fifteen becomes very contagious saw people like deval ferrari his mark but i don't think we can land because i don't think other people are going to vote for our issues and candidates so when we start getting that it's gonna start catching on and let no one doubt that the majority of our issues and the green party platform are majority are in issues opacity

poultice in terms of majority area support so let's end on a note of a few wise saying so many years ago that we can build our own civic resolve around and one was cicero two thousand forty years ago but that he defined freedom this was freedom his participation in power that was a major blow perfectly adaptable today freedom his participation and paul the second johnson orient ancient chinese proverb that preceded confucius consider the simplicity and the profound nature this we all know a lot about injustices in this country don't we we even rain the bottom and great reports from the wall street journal page one sixty minutes twenty twenty new york times at your local papers once a while they do a great job nothing happened nothing happens as a result we have gone on to develop democracy and overdeveloped to doctors

so here is a little pith the state from ancient john quote to know and not to act is not to know and go to which i had let us go thank you as bishop to pay the police the power to plug in the plane's belly in oregon and will have more extensive discussions but i cut pledge to go

to fifty states and it was fine and i've got a head off to alaska glowing green party awaits us and there's a real opportunity to try to send a message to the most reactionary russell delegation from any state in the country frank murkowski they've got a serious gripe on environmental policy making in congress you know which side they come also i'm sorry we don't have enough time for discussion we won't be back and i hope that you'll be all over this state planning a great march through oregon for a great surprise to the politicians and the tweedle dum to elude the political parties at