| Green Party 1996 Convention |
 Green
Party 1996 Convention:
Building Critical Mass
Monday, August 19th, Freud Playhouse
University of California, Los Angeles
Nominees:
Ralph Nader, President
Winona LaDuke, Vice-President
Photos •
Audio • Video
Video
Ralph Nader Presidential Acceptance Speech
Green
Party 1996 Convention - State Party Reports
State Green Party reports and welcomes from international
Green guests, preceding the nomination speech of Ralph Nader for President
- Int’l Guests - Niki Kortvelyessy (European Greens) Marco
Antonio Mroz, Walter de Oliveira (Partido Verde do
Brasil); Steve Kisby (Green Party of Canada);
- State Reports (in order of appearance) - DC (Bernardo Issel),
ME (John Rensenbrink); NJ (Madelaine Hoffman);
Moderator (Linda Martin); MN (Jo Haberman);
MO (Dee Berry); OH (David Ellison); TN (Winston
Grizzard); MS, KY, AL, DEL (Tom Linzey); AK (b);
HI (Nikhilananda); CA (David Silva, Betty
Traynor); OR (Deborah Howes); Moderators (Charles
Laws, Annie Goeke); AZ (Sloane Heywood);
CO (Karen Kos); NV (Sandy Rizzo); UT (Greg
Jan); NM (Cris Moore, Tammy Davis)
Time: 42:12
Winona LaDuke Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech (long)
Presidential Nomination Speeches for Ralph Nader
Vice-Presidential acceptance speech by Winona LaDuke,
followed by nomination speeches by Keiko Bonk (Hawai'i County
Councilmember); Ronnie Dugger (founding editor, the Texas
Observer); Sherry Meddick (Greenpeace); and Dan Hamburg (former
US Congressmember); moderated by Linda Martin (Hawai'i Green
Party) and Mike Feinstein (Green Party of California)
Time: 35:48
Winona LaDuke Vice-Presidential Acceptance Speech (short)
Short version of Winona LaDuke’s acceptance speech for Vice-President
for the Green Party in 1996. Filmed on the White Earth Reservation in Northern
Minnesota where LaDuke lives. A short and long version was prepared, in case
of time constraints. This rare short version footage was not broadcast. Instead
the longer version was played on the large movie screen in the theatre where
the convention took place and was carried live on C-SPAN.
Time: 02:21
Green
Party 1996 Convention - Ralph Nader Interviews (part one)
Raw footage of media interviews w/Ralph Nader during the
afternoon before his presidential nomination acceptance speech
Time: 33:17
Green
Party 1996 Convention – Ralph Nader Interviews (part
two)
Raw footage of media interviews w/Ralph Nader during the
afternoon before his presidential nomination acceptance speech
Time: 31:34
Audio
Radio Coverage by KPFK Pacifica, 90.7FM Los Angeles
| Robin
Urevitch reports from the floor of the Green Party nominating
convention |
Excerpts
from Ralph Nader’s two hour acceptance speech
Nader accepts the presidential nomination and goes on to discuss
a number of themes relevant to his candidacy. These include the
need for a new majoritarian party in the face of Democrat and
Republican similarity; the need for balancing duties
as public and private citizens; and the need to return the notion
of justice to the center of politics. |
Continued
excerpts from Ralph Nader’s acceptance speech
Nader discusses problems facing the country.
These include the concentration of power and wealth; declines
in real wages; lack of universal health care; NAFTA, GATT,
and the problem of lowest-common-denominator harmonization
demanded by free trade
regimes; the tendency of the middle class to turn on the poor
when the country is in decline; the lack of facts about corporate
welfare in debates about public welfare; and skewed budget
priorities. |
Continued
excerpts from Ralph Nader’s acceptance speech
Nader outlines solutions to the problems facing
the country. These include developing alternative energy sources;
following up on pilot housing projects to solve homelessness;
a universal single-payer health care system modeled on Canada’s;
fast, reliable, and pollution-free public transportation; the
use of pest management control, crop rotation, and organic
farming; shift toward citizen and liberal education; upgraded
labor laws;
tax checkoffs to prevent pharmaceutical corporations from getting
big gains from publicly-funded research; public funding of
elections;
improved ballot access for third parties; establishing the
initiative, referendum, and recall in every state; adding a
binding ‘none
of the above’ option to the ballot; 12 year legislative
term limits; and the reconstruction of civic community. |
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