I was in southern Vermont this last weekend, outside Brattleboro, to speak about Al Gore to a leaf-peepers' dinner at the Kopkind Colony (named for the great radical journalist who died in 1994) and came face to face with one of Gore's big...
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01 October 2000
The biggest objection by allies to voting for a Third Party is the “wasted vote” argument — the idea that if you vote for someone who will not win, then the vote does not count.
Join any third party and merely suggest that another...
01 October 2000
Most people would probably agree that TV news anchors and reporters should have a strong determination to search for and report the truth no matter what the economic consequences to their station or network might be. I bet they would also...
01 October 2000
The Emperor’s New Clothes is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s well-known fairly tales. In the story, weavers are making an invisible cloth for the Emperor’s “new clothes”. The weavers claimed that anyone who couldn’t see the...
01 October 2000
You remember Steven Kanner, a local activist who refused dominant values, whether by riding the bus instead of a car, refusing to wear leather tennis shoes, or dreaming of working in a cooperative tofu factory. One of my best...
01 October 2000
In 1993, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany became overnight celebrities with the publication of their memoir, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, written in collaboration with
New York Times reporter Amy Hill Hearth...
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