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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

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Ralph Nader Presidential Acceptance Speech
Part one - time: 26:27 Part three - time: 28:33
Part two - time: 33:55 Part four - time: 28:37

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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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